grand kru county development agenda

Grand Kru

County Development

AgendaRepublic of Liberia

2008 – 2012

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Prepared by the County Development Committee, in collaboration with the Ministries of Planning and

Economic Affairs and Internal Affairs.

Supported by the UN County Support Team project, funded by the Swedish Government and UNDP.

County Vision Statement

A unified, secured and prosperous County

with equal opportunities and justice for all.

Table of Contents

A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS........! iii

FOREWORD..........................................................................! iv

PREFACE .............................................................................!! vi

LOFA COUNTY OFFICIALS....................................................! viii

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..........................................................! xi

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

. ................................................................................................1.1! Introduction! 1

. ........................................................................................................1.2!History! 1

. ..................................................................................................1.3!Geography! 2

. ..............................................................................................1.4!Demography ! 3

. ..................................................................................1.5! Institutional Structure! 5

....................................................1.6 !Methodology used in preparing the CDA! 5

PART 2 - PRIORITIES, ISSUES AND ACTIONS

. ................................................................................2.1!Development Priorities! 9

. ..............................................................................................2.2!Security Pillar! 9

. ...................................................................2.3!Economic Revitalization Pillar! 11

...........................................................2.4 Governance and Rule of Law Pillar! 17

. .....................................................2.5! Infrastructure and Basic Services Pillar! 20

. ................................................................................2.6!Cross-Cutting Issues! 28

PART THREE - IMPLEMENTATION

. .............................................................3.1!Funding for County Development! 37

. .....................................................................................3.2!Building Capacity! 37

. ...............................................3.3!Managing Potential Risks and Constraints! 38

. ........................................................................3.4!Monitoring and Evaluation! 38

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ANNEX 1 - SWOT ANALYSIS

Annex 1.1 Grand Kru County Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and

.................................................................................Threats (SWOT) Analysis" 47

ANNEX 2 - COUNTY ACTION PLAN

.......................................................Annex 2.1 Grand Kru County Action Plan" 48

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A Message from the Minister of

Internal Affairs

Today, as never before, development rests in the hands

of the Liberian people. Citizens from all walks of life and

all parts of Grand Kru County came together to voice

their opinions, express their hopes for a better future

and determine the path to get them there. This County

Development Agenda was produced with and by the

people and reflects their good sensibilities and

judgment.

The Government of Liberia is making headway in the

effort to transform how it represents and interacts with

citizens. The national Poverty Reduction Strategy, which

was produced through extensive consultations with the

people, will guide national development 2008-2011. It establishes a new framework

for action and partnership between Government, civil society, the private sector and

the donor community. For the first time, a significant national strategy was developed

in response to the needs and aspirations of the people. This is just the beginning of a

new relationship between the Government and citizens.

Development is not easy. It will take many years of focused work to realize our dreams

of a more prosperous country where our children and grandchildren all can live

healthy, productive lives in a safe and peaceful environment. Success rests on three

important factors: the soundness of our strategy, the resources to support our work

and importantly the drive of our people to achieve the goals we’ve set forth. This

document lays out the right strategy, and I appeal to our donors to provide us with the

necessary support. But the real work is left to us, the Liberian people, and we must

rise together to meet the challenges ahead of us.

Ambulai B. Johnson, Jr.

Minister of Internal Affairs

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Foreword

This County Development Agenda marks a major shift in

the history of Grand Kru County. Up to now, Liberia’s

regional development has been a major disappointment:

we never had a cohesive policy and strategy; leaders

lacked vision and political will; governance and planning

were highly centralized in Monrovia; and institutions were

always constrained by a lack of adequate human

resources.

The CDA represents an important step toward addressing these issues and

achieving the sustained and inclusive national development described in the Poverty

Reduction Strategy 2008-2011. The logical starting point was to have the people

themselves articulating where they want the country to go, and in which areas they

would like to see our limited financial and human resources focused. As you will

read, a rigorous county-wide consultation exercise was undertaken in all fifteen

counties between September and December 2007. Citizens representing the

various clans, towns, districts and county government, along with our partners in

development, interacted to identify the pressing needs and priority action areas to

achieve sustained development.

While this process represents an essential first step, the CDA is meaningless if it is

not backed with concerted action. This is not just another document to be placed

on the shelf; it must be seen as a living framework for accomplishing our people’s

plan for accelerated growth and social development on a sustained basis.

The challenge is to ensure that the new expectations emerging from the CDA

process are met in a timely and comprehensive manner. The call for a combined

effort between Government, the private sector and the Citizenry could never have

been louder than it is today. To fail in delivering on the expectations contained in this

Agenda is not an option. Our success will depend on consistent planning and

programming, prudent and honest use of resources, and perhaps most importantly,

a collective will to succeed. The Liberian Government, for its part, remains

committed to making the required reforms for fulfilling the people’s vision for

development: attracting investment to create jobs, promoting balanced growth

countrywide, and decentralizing governance.

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Our sincere thanks go to all the participants in these CDA exercises: County

officials, Town, Clan and Paramount Chiefs, Legislators, representatives of the

Ministries and Agencies, Civil Society organizations, international and local non-

governmental organizations, and private sector partners. We would also like to

thank all those who assisted our team in the CDA process: the staffs of the

participating Ministries and Agencies, cooks, cultural troupes, and students that

ensured the success of CDA events. Finally, we thank our international partners, the

UN Family, the EU, and USAID, among others who provided both financial and

technical support to the entire process. Further such successful collaboration will be

crucial as we move into the implementation phase of this historic and essential

effort.

Toga Gayewea McIntosh, PhD

Minster of Planning and Economic Affairs

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Preface

Most of the county’s scarce resources and minimum basic

services are concentrated in Monrovia and other urban

communities. This situation doubtlessly resulted into our

citizens immigrating in search of education, good health

care and improved living conditions. Data collected as we

know, is cardinal to development planning and resource

allocation. The preparation and production of this this

documentdevelopment package has opened a new chapter

in the annals of our history as a nation. The Poverty

Reduction Strategy (PRS) process has enabled us as a countyCounty to galvanize our

efforts and harness our meager resources, both human and material, to dialogue and

chart a new course of action now referred to as the Grand Kru County Development

Agenda.

It is therefore incumbent upon us to commend the Unity Party-led gGovernment

through and Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her pursuing the vision

to decentralize every sectordecentralization, which will stimulate rapid economic

growth and national development. We cannot forget to thank the Ministers of Internal

Affairs and Planning and Economic Affairs for their leadership guidance in the

process. The intervention of our partners in progress (UN CST, UNDP, UNMIL, and

International international NGOs) in this endeavor is also noteworthy.

This document would not have been possible without the tireless efforts and sleepless

nights spent by our staff, headed by the Assistant Superintendent for Development.

The efforts of our citizens from clan to district levels cannot be overemphasized. The

We also recognize the immense contribution of the Grand Kru County Legislature

Legislative Caucus is the last but not the least.

My fellow citizens, remember that small minds discuss people, big minds discuss

events, but great minds discuss ideas. Let us not relent to in championing our own

cause and decide our own destiny in order to accomplish our dreams and

aspirations. Providence and posterity shall be our judge, if we fail to leave our

footprints on the sand of time.

Rosalind Sneh

Superintendent, Grand Kru County

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Officials of Government in Grand

Kru County

1. Hon. Rosalind Sneh" " Superintendent

2. Hon. T. Michael Wisseh" " Asst. Supt. for Development

3. Hon. Benedict S. Sayeh" " Adm. Asst. to the Superintendent

4. Hon. John W. Mah"" " County Inspector

5. Hon. Jacqueline Nah" " Land Commissioner

6. Hon Christie W. Doe" " Relieving Commissioner

7. Hon. Albert C. Nebo" " Project Planner

8. Hon. Moses N. Bloh" " Special Assistant

9. Hon. Peter N. Gipplay" " Asst. Regional Inspector

10. Mr. Harry D. Doe"" " County Education Officer

11. Mr. Augustine Jimmy" " County Health Officer

12. Mr. Wesmore T. Gonyon"" Resident Engineer

13. Mr. Roosevelt C. Toe" " GSA Coordinator

14. Mr. Simandra Juah" " Labor Commissioner

15. Mrs. Anna J. Wreh" " Gender Coordinator

16. Mr. Michael K.W. Tarwreh" County Coordinator, MRD

17. Rev. John T. Nyewan" " Youth/Sports Coordinator

18. Mr. Orlando C. Toby" " Revenue Agent

19. Atty. J. Gordon Nyema" " County Attorney

20. Mr. Joseph C. Suduail" " MNS ComM&Er

21. Col. Stephen Weah" " LNP ComM&Er

22. Col. Winston T. Nimely" " BIN ComM&Er

23. Col. Moses J. Flenneh" " DEA ComM&Er

24. Mr. J. Karnbor Weah" " Mineral Inspector

District Superintendents

25. Hon. J. Seidewon Doe" " Buah District

26. Hon. Borbor T. Wion " " Forpoh District

27. Hon. D. Slaymu Blamoh"" Dorboh District

28. Hon. Peter S. Nyon" " Jloh District

29. Hon. A. Koffa Kun" " Jrao District

30. Hon. A. Amajie Siakah" " Trehn District

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District Commissioners

31. Hon. J. Koffa Worjedee" " Barclayville/Picnicess

32. Hon. John N. Ponyeneh"" Grandcess/Wedabo

33. Hon. James M Hne" " Garraway (Confirmed)

34. Hon. Napoleon S. Toe" " Trembo (Confirmed)

35. Hon. Amos C. Nyeka" " Blebo (Confirmed)

36. Hon. Vincent N. Putu" " Nrokia/Weslo (Confirmed)

37. Hon. Leo B. Toe" " " Felo/Jekwikpo

38. Hon. L. Slewion Wleh" " Lower Jloh

39. Hon. Peter S. Nyon" " Upper Jloh

40. Hon. P. Wiah Nimene" " Fenitoe

41. Hon J. Toe Kieh" " " Bolloh

42. Hon Dixon T. Pannoh" " Dorbor

43. Hon. Stephen Weah" " Gee

44. Hon. Peter Wiah Tor" " Kpi

45. Hon. Jerome Juwily" " Buah

46. Hon. Jerry P. Weah" " Dwehken

47. Hon. J. Klayplah Chea" " Wrogba

48. Hon. T. Barfeh Wiah" " Forpoh

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Executive Summary

Located in Southeastern Liberia, Grand Kru is the nation’s most neglected

countyCounty. The countyCounty is a land of vast forests irrigated by many rivers.

Grand Kru has the potential for a much greater share of national economic activity,

given its deposits of gold and timber reserves, but this potential is largely untapped.

More than 70% of households are said to be food insecure or highly vulnerable to

food insecurity. The countyCounty’s top-most priority for development can be

summed up in one word: roads. Many needed services such as clinics, schools,

and WATSAN are absent only because the Government and development partners

cannot not reach the targeted populations. Today the countyCounty’s vision is

consolidating peace and security, fostering tribal reconciliation and unity, and

improving the socio-economic lives of its citizens. As a key component of the

recovery effort, the County Development Agenda is the local complement to the

national Poverty Reduction Strategy 2008-2011, and was prepared following a

series of District Development Consultation Meetings that utilized the Participatory

Rural Appraisal (PRA) method. In this process, citizens managed to identify the

critical interventions needed to move toward realizing the MDGs, including: paving

of all primary roads and most secondary roads to connect agriculture communities

to market; construction and rehabilitation of health facilities with proper staffing and

affordable services; and much-expanded education services. The CDA calls for

concrete actions to be taken under the four Pillars of the national PRS, namely

Security, Economic Revitalization, Governance and Rule of Law, and Infrastructure

and Basic Services. Finally, the CDA lists the specific projects that were identified for

action at the District level. The projects and priorities in the CDA should be taken as

the principal targets for the county’s development funding during the CDA

implementation period.

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Key Statistics

County Capital Barclayville

Statutory Districts 6

Administrative Districts 18

Population 58000

Area 2,298.78 sq. km

Principal Local Languages Kru and Grebo

Functioning Health Facilities 12

Functioning Schools 140

IDPs 206

Returnees 393

Ex-combatants 128

Existing Roads 360 km.

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PART 1 - INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

1.1! Introduction

The socio-economic situation of Grand Kru County is fragile for the fact that the

County is isolated from nearly all basic services and residents largely depend on

subsistence farming for survival. A few government and NGO jobs are the only

sources of wage employment. Like other parts of Liberia, Grand Kru has potential for

logging and mining, but there have been no significant business investments made in

the County since its creation. There are intertribal conflicts that are mainly centered

around land or boundary disputes. Illicit gold mining and pit sawing are on the

increase as the County’s resources are unprotected due to the lack of adequate

security. The County has long been referred to as the “Walking County”, as more

than two-thirds of the County is inaccessible by car. But with the implementation of

the CDA, Grand Kru County has great potential for growth and poverty reduction.

1.2! History

The creation of the County evolved from an understanding between members of the

military junta and the People’s Redemption Council (PRC), which in 1980 overthrew

the Administration of President William R. Tolbert and suspended the Constitution of

Liberia. It happened that the Chairman of the PRC came from Grand Gedeh County;

the Vice Chairman from Sinoe County; and the Commanding General from Nimba

County. The Speaker of the Council, Major General Nicholas Podier felt that it was

only fair that the area of the country from which he came should be recognized as a

County as well. On April 12 1980, Decree number 87 was published by the Interim

National Assembly, declaring Grand Kru County to be the area covering the eastern

portion of Sinoe County, Sasstown Territory; the community between Maryland and

then Grand Gedeh, Buah Statutory District; and the western half of Maryland County

along the Atlantic Ocean, Kru Coast Territory.

The town of Barclayville, which was considered centrally-located despite its lack of

basic facilities and infrastructure, was selected as the capital. Its selection was aimed

at overcoming the traditional and political rivalry between the two former capitals of

Grandcess and Sasstown, and is seen as a union between the coastal population,

mainly Kru, and the people of the hinterland, the Grebo.

The County emblem, the flag, has three colors: green, yellow and white. The flag has

ten vertical stripes; four green, four yellow and two white, with a palm tree in the

center. In the upper left-hand corner is the Liberian flag. The green represents the

evergreen rain forest, the green vegetation and the savanna that represents the

potential for huge private sector investment in the areas of logging and cattle

breeding. The yellow depicts the long belt of gold deposits in the County, while the

white represents purity.

Grand Kru County Development Agenda ! 1

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Grand Kru County Flag

1.3! Geography

Grand Kru County is located along the southern Atlantic Coast of Liberia. The

Western boundary is with Sinoe County. To the North is River Gee County and the

Eastern boundary is with Maryland County. Grand Kru County has a total land area of

891 square miles or 2298.78 square kilometers.

Climate

The geographic position of Grand Kru County near the equator and proximity to the

Atlantic Ocean determine the County’s climatic condition. Average annual rainfall

ranges between 107 inches in the Northern part of the County to 160 inches in the

Southern part. The climate is characterized by little seasonal change in temperature

and humidity, but by daily changes between day and night. The seasons (dry and

rainy) are marked by variation in precipitation. The rainy season runs from April to

September while the dry season spans between October and March. Generally the

wind blows from the Northeast during the dry season and from the Southwest during

the rainy season. Due to the equatorial location of Grand Kru County, the sun is

overhead almost all the year. Average annual temperature is 25.5ºC (77.5ºF).

Topography

The topography of Grand Kru is generally characterized by two major landforms:

coastal plains and rolling hills. There are several hills, plains and valleys and one

recognized mountain called Sawleh, in Dorboh Statutory District. There are many

rivers, including Dorboh, Norh, Misnoh, Snoh, Neh, Chen, Barffor, Gen, and Gbatu, all

with waterfalls. There is a lake in Sasstown called Trengbe.

Geology

The geological structure of Grand Kru County is typical of South-eastern Liberia, which

is generally classified as having rock of the Eburnean age, generally biotite rich. The

major tectonic feature is the Dube Shear Zone, which has potential for mineral

exploration.

Soil types found in the County are reddish-brown soil and gray to black soil. These soil

types support the growth of variety of tree crops such as rubber, oil palm, coffee and

other crops such as corn and rice. The southern part of the County is characterized by

sandy soil.

2! Grand Kru County Development Agenda

Vegetation

Forest resources in the County are vast and unexploited. Grassland includes a huge

savannah spread over the coastal areas of the County suitable for animal husbandry.

1.4! Demography 1

Households in Grand Kru County were recently reported to have an average

membership of 5.8 persons, while nationally the rate is slightly lower at 5.6 persons.

The County’s dependency ratio is 1.61. Families or households in the County are

headed mostly by males (90%), while Liberia is 87% and 13% for males and females

respectively. Elderly-headed households in the County represent 7% of the total,

higher than the national percentage. Some 4% of households in Grand Kru include

chronically ill or disabled people, compared to the average of 9% across Liberia.

However, the County has one of the highest percentages of chronically ill or disabled

household head 29% (the rest of the country has 26%). Five percent of households

sampled in the County reported orphans.

Table 1: Demographic Indicators

County

Demographic Indicators

HH sizeDependency ra-

tioSex of HH head Elderly headed

householdsMale Female

Grand Kru 5.8 1.61 90% 10% 7%

Liberia 5.6 1.37 87% 13% 8%

Source: Comprehensive Food Security and Nutrition Survey (October 2006)

Three major dialects are spoken in the County. These include Bassa (spoken by 1%),

Grebo (spoken by the majority (65%), and Kru (spoken by 33%).

Table 2: Percentage Distribution of Dialects spoken

CountyLanguage and Dialects Spoken

Bassa Gbandi Gio Gola Grebo Kissi Kpelle Krahn Kru Lorma Mano Vai Sapo Other

Grand

Kru1% 0% 0% 0% 65% 0% 0% 0% 33% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1%

Liberia 18% 2% 7% 6% 9% 4% 26% 4% 3% 7% 7% 4% 1% 1%


Table 3: Households with Disabled Members and Orphans

County

Households with Disabled Members and Orphans

Chronically ill/disabled

No of chronically ill/disabled

Chronically ill/disabled HH head

Orphans No of orphans

Grand

Kru4% 1.1 29% 5% 1.2

Liberia 9% 1.2 26% 2% 1.4

Source: Comprehensive Food Security and Nutrition Survey, October 2006


1 Data and statistics provided in this document were based on estimates prior to the conduct of the 2008 Na-

tional Population and Housing Census. These information will duly be updated when valid results are available

and subsequent revisions shall be made.

The below population table is extracted from the Norwegian Refugee Council Needs

Assessment report, “Returnees Monitoring Program” conducted in 2005. Figures

contained here are solely based on what was reported by enumerators from NRC

and have not been approved by the Government of Liberia official statistic house,

LISGIS.

Table 4: Population Estimates by Districts

Grand Kru

District Total

Population by status Population by status - percentage

Locals

Returnees

(Ref. and

IDPs)

IDPs Refugees Locals %

Return-

ees (Ref.

and

IDPs)%

IDPs %Refugees

%

Buah 3384 3134 250 0 0 92.61% 7.39% 0.00% 0.00%

Barclayville 4745 4391 354 0 0 92.54% 7.46% 0.00% 0.00%

Sasstown 1150 788 362 0 0 68.52% 31.48% 0.00% 0.00%

Trehn 9871 9207 664 0 0 93.27% 6.73% 0.00% 0.00%

Dorbor 2553 1678 875 0 0 65.73% 34.27% 0.00% 0.00%

Forpoh 344 344 0 0 0 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

Grand Cess 2902 2724 178 0 0 93.87% 6.13% 0.00% 0.00%

Jloh 2149 1640 509 0 0 76.31% 23.69% 0.00% 0.00%

Total 27098 23906 3192 0 0 88.22% 11.78% 0.00% 0.00%

Source: Norwegian Refugee Council January 2007

The total population of the County, according to a recent data, has increased to

58,342 (Source CHO) Further reliable demographic study on Grand Kru is an

imperative. Such a study will validate the County’s actual population figure. Presently,

there are different sets of population data out there. What ever figures available for the

County must be used with extreme caution as they may differ from study to study.

The most recent 2006 population projection from LISGIS, which also includes

households’ projection for the same period, is widely used when doing ratios and

analysis for this document unless otherwise specified.

Table 5: Population Data Gender Distribution

Grand Kru

District Total

Population by gen-

der

Population gender per-

centage

Female Male Female Male

Buah 3384 1737 1647 51.33% 48.67%

Barclayville 4745 2460 2285 51.84% 48.16%

Sasstown 1150 475 675 41.30% 56.52%

Trehn 9871 5294 4577 53.63% 45.48%

Dorbor 2553 1275 1278 49.94% 50.06%

Forpoh 344 185 159 53.78% 46.22%

Grand Cess 2902 1546 1356 53.27% 46.73%

Jloh 2149 1051 1098 48.91% 51.09%

Total 27098 14023 13075 51.75% 48.25%

Source: Norwegian Refugee Council January 2007


1.5! Institutional Structure

1.6 ! Methodology used in preparing the CDA!

The County Development Agenda is the local expression of the national aspirations in

the Poverty Reduction Strategy 2008-2011. The CDA was developed alongside the

PRS and can be seen as the local strategy to carry the nation toward its PRS goals.

The process started with a series of 132 Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)

workshops at the district level in all counties, where district development priorities

were identified. Following these meetings, district representatives met in each county

to identify three priority needs out of the priorities identified during the district

workshops. Finally, a series of three regional meetings gathered representatives from

the 15 counties to consolidate and harmonize county priorities into regional priorities,

which served as the basis for the drafting of the PRS.

In Grand Kru County, the consultations covered the following Administrative Districts:

Barclayville/Picnicess, Grandcess/Wadebo, Garraway, Trembo, Blebo, Nrokia/Weslo,

Upper Jloh, Lower Jloh, Dorbor, Bolloh, Fenitoe, Buah, Kpi, Gee, Forpoh, Dwehken,

and Wrogba. Delegates prepared clan-based timelines of development events in their

areas as well as known resources and clan profiles. Cross-cutting issues such as

gender sensitivity, HIV and AIDS were taken into consideration. Thereafter the districts

considered challenges and, using SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and

Threats) analysis and Problem/Solution Mapping techniques, developed the District

Action Plans annexed hereon. These plans were then analyzed and consolidated at a

County Development Agenda Consolidation Meeting that informed the County Action

Plan below.


Grand Kru County Consulatations

PART 2 - PRIORITIES, ISSUES AND ACTIONS

2.1! Development Priorities

The citizens of the County have stated that they prefer a bottom-to-top approach for

implementation of its development agenda. The reason for this approach is to

maintain the interest and comprehensive involvement of the citizens in the

development process. They have been deprived for so long that waiting for

development programs and benefits to trickle down will not sustain their enthusiasm

and patience.

District Priorities

Priority needs emanating from each of the district consultations include the following,

in this order:

Roads

Health

Education

County Priorities

The priority needs as identified during the County Consolidation Meeting were the

same as the district priorities, and in the same order of priority.

2.2! Security Pillar

Liberia National Police (LNP)

Grand Kru County has a total of ten operational LNP posts. The current strength of

the LNP stands at thirty-five (35). LNP officers are presently deployed in Barclayville,

Behwan, Geetugbaken, Sasstown, Grandcess and Dorboh. There is one operational

vehicle and two motorcycles allocated to the LNP assigned to the County. UNDP

(with funding from the Norwegian Government) has commenced the construction of a

Police Station in Barclayville. The lack of office space, communications and the

inaccessibility of most parts of the County creates a hurdle for LNP patrols and to the

enhancement of security.

Table 6: Status of LNP

No. of LNP

StationsLocation

Number of

LNP in situStatus of Station

Vehicles / Motor

bikes for LNP

1 Barclayville 10 Under Construction1Pick-up patrol 1mo-

torbike

1 Grandcess 4 No Structure None

1 Dorbor 5 No Structure None

1 Behwan 6 No Structure 1 Motor Bike

1 Sasstown 5 No Structure None

1 Gee City 5 No Structure None

Source: Census of Rule of Law Facilities


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Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (BIN)

Grand Kru County forms part of the BIN Region 5 Command Structure, which

includes Maryland and River Gee Counties. There are fourteen BIN posts to man in

the County; five entry posts and nine foot crossing paths. The BIN capacity plan

demands a total of twenty BIN officers. There is one motorbike assigned to the

County for BIN. The lack of logistics like communications and mobility coupled with

inaccessibility is a problem to the BIN.

Table 7: Status of BIN

BIN Posts Location # of Men Status Vehicle/Motor Bike

1 Barclayville 4 No Structure 1 Motor Bike

1 Trehn 3 No Structure N/A

1 Grandcess 1 No Structure N/A

1 Sasstown 1 No Structure N/A

1 Buah 1 No Structure N/A

Interventions – Security Pillar

Issue InterventionsDelivery

Date

Lead

Ministry

/ Agency

Goal: To create a secure and peaceful environment, both domestically and in the sub-

region, that is conducive to sustainable, inclusive, and equitable growth and development.

Strategic objective 1: To build the capacity of security institutions

Training is still needed for some security institutions, security institutions lack logistics, equipment, and adequate remuneration for operation.

Construct police depots in each of the six Statutory Districts2008-2012 LNP

Construct a BIN Headquarters in Barclayville and posts at the fourteen crossing points

2008-2012 BIN

Hire, train and deploy an additional 72 police officers to ade-quately cover the County

2008-2012 LNP

Hire, train and deploy an additional 10 BIN Officers to adequately cover the County

2008-2012 BIN

Strategic objective 2: To provide adequate territorial protection and law enforcement services to the

general population of Liberia

Inadequate presence of security officers throughout Liberia, security institutions are not yet in full control of security responsibility.

Organize trainings for all security organs to improve their per-formance

2008-2012 Security Organs

Supply all LNP and BIN posts with vehicles, motorcycles, commu-nication sets, sleeping quarters, office furniture and supplies

2008-2012 LNP, BIN

Conduct mapping exercises of all mining sites to verify the number of ex-combatants and foreigners present

2008-2012 LNP, MIA

Strategic objective 3: To ensure institutional participation in security governance and functions

Civilians and local authorities are excluded from participating in security governance.

Create awareness and sensitize the people on community policing to reduce the crime rate

2008-2012 LNP, MIA


2.3! Economic Revitalization Pillar

Grand Kru County is Liberia’s most peripheral among the fifteen counties, and it was

the least affected by displacements. This coupled with the difficult access has

translated into low attention from development agencies, though the needs are high.

More than 70% of households are said to be food insecure or highly vulnerable to

food insecurity. The majority of households have poor and borderline food

consumption as well as weak access profiles. Harvest in 2005 was severely

hampered by a number of factors. One was the constant attack by groundhogs. The

second was early and heavy rains resulting to soil erosion. The County has the

highest rate of chronic child malnutrition at 47.3%. External agriculture assistance

during this time was only 18%.

Subsistence agriculture is the chief occupation of some for 80-85% of the County’s

population, as only about 13% of the people have formal jobs. Hunting and small-

scale businesses (petty trading), and processing of palm nuts/oil are also important

occupations.

Figure 1: Major Income Generating Activities


Agriculture

The two main staple crops cultivated are rice and cassava. Subsistence farming is

usually conducted in community farms using a process of shifting cultivation. The

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been trying to introduce paddy rice

farming (as opposed to upland farming).

Like most other counties in Liberia, in 2005 farmers in Grand Kru were cultivating the

following food crops (by percentage of farmers): rice 82%, cassava 82%, sweet

potatoes/eddoes 10%, plantain/banana 22%, and vegetables 11%. During this same

period the following cash crops were cultivated: rubber 19%, coffee 1%, cacao 20%,

sugar cane 27%, pineapple 12%, coconut 12%, plantain/banana 65%, palm nut/oil


5% and cola nut 3%. Eighteen percent of all households sampled in the County

received agriculture assistance, mainly tools (16%) and seeds (6%).

Table 8: Food Production Profile

Name of Crop Percentage Cultivated Year Cultivated

Rice 82% 2005

Cassava 82% 2005

Vegetables 22% 2005

Table 9: Crops Types/Livestock

Food Crops producer Cash Crops producer Livestock

Rice

Vegetables

Cassava

Plantain/banana

Rubber

Cocoa

Coconut

Sugarcane

Pineapple

Plantain/banana

Palm/kola nuts

Goat

Ducks

Chicken

Sheep

Pigs


Table 10: County’s Agriculture Constraints

Lack of

seeds

Lack of

tools

Lack of fertilizer & pesticides

Lack of household

labour

Lack of defense against Birds/groundhogs

Plant disease / insect at-

tack

Lost of harvest due to heavy

rains

Lack of cash

HH engaged in otheractivities

64% 56% 1% 14%8/55%

respectively1% 12 2% 28%

Box 1: Food Consumption, access and security profile

Food consumption: poor (12%), borderline (58%), fairly good (26%), good (4%)

Food access: very weak (27%), weak (35%), medium (31%), good (7%)

Food security: food insecure (14%), highly vulnerable (58%), moderately vulnerable

(36%), food secured (2%)


Improved agricultural methodologies, provision of modern tools, access to extension

training, the availability of loans or subsidy to farmers and the provision of seeds to

replenish individual household’s seed bank lost to the war will definitely set the pace

for recovery in the County’s agriculture sector, thereby improving food consumption

and access profile among locals. Grand Kru has a relatively small population; as such

the impact of any sustained intervention will be quickly seen and felt by both partners

and beneficiaries.


While the current focus of farmers is on rice and cassava production, there are also

rubber, cocoa, coffee, coconut and oil palm farms ripe for rehabilitation. The potential

for cash crop cultivation is enormous, and represents a means to create sustainable

economic growth. The potential for vegetable and fruit production is very high.

Mechanized cassava production can yield high profits due to the county’s

comparative advantage in labor and supply. Tree crops in production in Grand Kru

include oil palm, cocoa, rubber, sugarcane, and coffee, but plantations lie in ruin and

need rehabilitation. Sugarcane and rubber production are currently on the increase

because of their industrial nature, especially rubber. Rubber is a part of the

commercial life-blood of the County, as an estimated 6% of households were

involved in tapping in 2005, even as the industry languishes from lack of investment.

Sugarcane is used to produce cane juice, a local beverage that is widely consumed.

Decoris Oil Palm Plantation covers parts of Eastern Half of Grand Kru County.

Fishing

Grand Kru County has a long coastline that has potential for mechanized ocean

fishing, especially from the communities of Garraway, Po-River, Grandcess,

Picniccess, Sasstown and Jloh. Traditionally, the Kru people on the coast are a fishing

people, but today fish only on the artesanal level. Also inland fishing and aquaculture

have huge potential in Grand Kru due to its many rivers, creeks and swamps. The

industry is still in the earliest stages and needs material inputs and capacity-building to

grow.

Livestock

Grand Kru County has great

potential for livestock breeding and

poultry, as there are large savanna

grasslands in the County. The

County was historically known for the

breeding of the livestock, especially

cows, goats and sheep. Currently

people are restocking on an

individual basis in almost all of the

major communities the County.

Natural Resources

Timber

A good portion of Liberia’s forest reserve is located in the southeastern region, of

which Grand Kru is a part. The total forest cover for Maryland, Grand Kru and River

Gee counties is 119,344 hectares. About 75% (89,508 hectares) of this forest cover is

located in Grand Kru County. According to the Forestry Development Authority (FDA)

the forest of Grand Kru can support logging activities for up to 25 years, and as


logging commences, plans will be laid for the implementation of a reforestation

program to renew the resource. Presently the sector is not active, but Grand Kru

County has chosen logging as one of its investment priorities. However, the export-

dominated raw timber logging of the past is not desirable to the people of the County.

In order to add value and increase employment, local timber processing is prioritized

because of its labor-intensive nature. Timber can progressively be developed into

manufactured processed wood products such as furniture. Many non-timber forest

products are also found in abundance in Grand Kru County including bamboo, reed,

rattan bush, meat, nuts berries, and materials for traditional medicines and local

construction.

Bio-fuel

Grand Kru County is endowed with fertile land that supports agricultural activities,

particularly the cultivation of sugarcane, groundnut, oil palm, pineapple, and cocoa.

The global quest to find alternative sources of energy, especially in the area of bio-fuel

presents the opportunity for investment. Investment in bio-fuel will have a multiplier

effect; there will be boost in agricultural activities as well as technological

advancement, bringing job opportunities and improved quality of life.

Mining

Exploration carried out in the County suggests huge deposits of gold and diamond.

For example, reports from an exploration conducted by Liberty Gold Company reveal

that Dugbo and surrounding areas including Clay-deeper are endowed with huge

deposits of gold and diamond. Currently, there are only illicit mining activities ongoing,

but investment in mining, especially in an organized fashion, presents a plethora of

opportunities that will improve the socio-economic wellbeing of the County.

Grand Kru County has three mining

agencies: Buah Min ing Agency,

Barforwin Mining Agency and Barclayville

Mining Agency. There are eight mining

claims, five survey clearances and three

prospecting licenses in the three

agencies. Liberty Gold is a private firm

that has applied to the Government of

Liberia and is now prospecting in Grand

Kru County. Against the backdrop of the

new Mineral Development Agreement

(MDA), Grand Kru County has selected

industrial gold mining as one of its major

investment priorities in the Poverty

Reduction Strategy (PRS) process.


County Comparative Advantage and Investment Priorities

On the basis of identified strength in the County as far as potential for development is

concerned the following constitute the County’s comparative advantage as reference

for investment priorities. The below Annex showing a detailed SWOT Analysis

provides further justification.

Forest

Fertile Land

Minerals (gold, diamonds)

Considering these advantages the County has identified three priority areas for

investment, namely:

Bio-fuel

Timber/logging

Gold and diamond mining

Finance and Banks

The County presently does not have a bank, and the population has no access to

credit. The need to create opportunities for women and youth to start and grow their

small businesses is great. Most youth have left Grand Kru for Harper and Monrovia in

search of better opportunities.

Markets

The County is located far from the capital of Monrovia, and consequently, only two

percent of households are involved with market transactions in Monrovia. Forty-two

percent of households do their trading across the border in neighboring Ivory Coast,

due to the County’s proximity to that country. The average walking distance to market

is 3 hours and 15 minutes, due to the absence of roads and public transportation.

This is a long way to travel, especially where people are carrying heavy loads often on

their heads. An estimated 95 percent of households go to market to buy food, while

67 percent are traders who go to sell farm products.

Table 11: Households Access to Markets

Selling in

Monrovia

Selling in urban centers

across the border

Walking distance to

weekly market in hours

Access to

market

Buy

food

Sell

Food

2% 42% 3.3 97% 95% 67%


Customs Officials

The Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Excise in Monrovia reports that the

County does not have any Customs ports.


Revenue Agents

The Department of Revenue has 24 revenue collectorates across the country. One of

these collectorates is situated in Grand Kru County. The Grand Kru collectorate has 6

revenue officers assigned.

Employment Situation

Unemployment is a serous problem across the entire country and Grand Kru is no

exception. There are no formal employments in the County apart from those who

work for the GoL. Unlike other counties, Grand Kru has got large plantations (i.e.

rubber and oil palm). Commercial activities are almost non-existent apart from gold

mining. Petty trading, casual laboring and small-scale farm to market agriculture

activities constitute the economic life-blood of the County. The CFSNS puts the

percentage of household who generated income from employers in 2005 at 13%.

This is a reasonably high percentage for an isolated County. We have no indication of

what type of jobs or business the employers are or were engaged in to have provided

salary for 13% of household.

Interventions – Economic Revitalization Pillar


Date

Lead

Ministry

/ Agency

Goal: Restoring production in the leading natural resource sectors, especially agriculture, while ensuring the benefits are widely shared; and reducing production costs to establish the foundation for diversi-fication of the economy over time into competitive production of downstream products, and even-tually manufactures and services.

Strategic objective 1: Develop more competitive, efficient, and sustainable food and agricultural value

chains and linkages to markets.

Agricultural supply chains have collapsed due to frag-mented markets, weak rural demand, no value addition, and few incentives for cash crop production.

Provide business development services and incentives to en-courage business investment in the county, and to encourage the value addition/manufacture of goods for local consump-tion and export 2008-2012

MoL, MoA, MoCI

Strategic objective 2: Improve food security and nutrition, especially for vulnerable groups such as

pregnant and lactating women and children under five.

High levels of food insecurity and child malnutrition impede socioeconomic development and poverty reduction.

Provide extension services to local farmers in the areas of training, tools, equipments, seeds, fertilizers, and insecticides to improve food security in the County.

2008-2012 MoA

Provide food assistance to schools, health facilities, and vulner-able populations using locally-produced food wherever possible 2008-2012 MoA, MoE

Provide tools for farmers across the County, such as cutlasses, axes, hoses, rakes, and shovels, in quantities based on pending statistics on existing farmers from the County Agricultural Office

2008-2012 MoA

Train farmers in seed multiplication and on retaining seeds from own harvests for replanting, to address dependency on external seed supply

2008-2012 MoA


Strategic objective 3: Strengthen human and institutional capacities to provide needed services, create a

strong enabling environment, and reduce vulnerability.

Institutions remain largely ineffective at delivering serv-ices such as regulation, policy and planning, and research and extension.

Empower security agencies to curb illegal pit-sawing and en-force the new Forestry Law to curtail the hemorrhaging of timber resources

2008-2012FDA, LNP, BIN

Provide vocational training to ex-combatants 2008-2012 MoL

Organize and publicize workshops/training for owners and workers of small and medium enterprises in the County, based on needs identified by the businesses themselves

2008-2012 MoL

Regularize mining licenses and concessions where possible 2008-2012 MLME

Provide incentives to the private sector and inputs to re-establish logging activities

2008-2012 FDA

Provide incentives and inputs to open commercial gold and diamond mines

2008-2012 MLME

Assign six additional Revenue Collectors equipped with the necessary logistics such as vehicles, motor-bikes, communica-tion and office supplies

2008-2012 MoF

Assign two Customs officers equipped with logistics at each of the coastal entry points of Jloh, Sasstown, Picnicess, Grandcess and Garraway

2008-2012 Customs

Construct a branch of the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) in Barclayville

2008-2012 MoF

Provide tax holidays to investors establishing themselves in rural agricultural areas

2008-2012MoF, MIA, MoA

Construct a central market building in Barclayville and eight-een market buildings in the Administrative Districts of the County

2008-2012 MoF, CBL

Strengthen market infrastructure and policies to facilitate better-functioning markets, based on the input of marketers, and support marketing associations

2008-2012 MIA, MoL

Facilitate the formalization of informal businesses through licensing, business development services

2008-2012 MoF, MoL

Provide incentives and inputs to attract investment in logging in the districts of Trehn, Jloh, Dorbor, Buah, Forpoh and Bar-clayville

2008-2012 FDA

Provide incentives and inputs to attract investment in rubber production

2008-2012 MoA

Provide incentives and inputs to attract investment in mining 2008-2012 MLME

Work with the National Investment Commission to design a strategy for attracting investors, including conducting a feasi-bility study for industrial wood processing

2008-2012 NIC, FDA

2.4 Governance and Rule of Law Pillar

State Authority is present in most parts of the countyCounty. But the activities of the

countyCounty Administration (MIA) and Line Ministries and agencies deployed in the

countyCounty has been hampered by capacity constraints, inadequate logistics and

lack of office space. Giving the inaccessibility problem of Grand Kru County, Rule of

Law institutions are affected by the result of inadequate reporting instances of human

rights abuses. For instance, during the August Term of Court 2007 the Assigned

Judge was unable to reach Barclayville due to the blockade of the Plebo-Barclayville

Highway. For the same reason of inaccessibility, the twenty-eighty Magisterial Courts

cannot be properly monitored. There are reported cases of extortion of money, illegal

detention and unjust practices. Since crimes continue to be committed in the

absence of recognized correction facilities, magisterial authorities have resulted to the

detention of suspects and/or criminals in makeshift facilities. In the mining areas, it is

alleged that there are a host of human rights abuses mainly involving children being


used as minors and plotters. The children are therefore vulnerable to child prostitution,

teenage pregnancy, early marriages and school dropout. The inaccessibility situation

has also made it difficult to monitor whether children of Grand Kru enjoy their rights to

education particularly at the primary level for whom the free and compulsory

education has been introduced. There are reported cases of trial by ordeal, which

often result to illegal detention and forced labor.

Rule of Law

There is a Circuit Court in Barclayville but it is not operational due to the absence of

the Circuit Judge. There is no Resident Judge for the 12th Judicial Circuit Court. The

November Term of Court was opened ceremonially without a judge. There is also a

Debt Court, Traffic Court, Revenue Court and a Magisterial Court in Barclayville. There

are twenty-eight magisterial courts, operated by 28 stipendiary magistrates and 56

associate magistrates in the rest of the countyCounty, all operating from private

homes.Table 12: Court Facilities

No. of Facilities Type of Facility Location Status No. of Officers

1 Circuit Court Barclayville No Structure 1 Judge

1 Debt Court Barclayville No Structure 1 Judge

1 Traffic Court Barclayville No Structure 1 Judge

1 Revenue Court Barclayville No Structure 1 Judge

28 Magisterial Courts Operating fromprivate homes

No Structures 28

Source: Census of Rule of Law

Corrections

Grand Kru has no formal corrections system operational like her neighbor River Gee.

The Bureau of Corrections and Rehabilitation signals the County among counties in

Liberia without prison/correction facilities. In areas where formal correction set-ups are

non-existent, local authorities result to improvising. In many instances what they can

provide do not meet the minimum human rights requirements. Provision of a

corrections facility is a need that must be met quickly.

Figure 2: Number of Protection Incidents Reported in the County

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Interventions – Governance and Rule of Law Pillar


Date

Lead

Ministry

/ Agency

Goal: To build and operate efficient and effective institutions and systems, in partnership with the citizens,

that will promote and uphold democratic governance, accountability, justice for all and strengthen peace

Strategic objective 1: To increase and enhance citizen participation in and ownership of government

policy formulation and implementationGiven the current

constitutional provi-

sions, political and

economic decision-

making have taken a

top-down approach

for a long time with

local leadership and

actors playing a lim-

ited role in the process

that impact their lives

which has led to wide

spread poverty and

non-accountability in

the use of public re-

sources.

Increase the number of workshops and public sensitizations on

human rights, community policing, the rule of law, social rein-

tegration, good citizenship and development.

2008-2012MoJ, LNP

Strategic objective 2: To strengthen and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of public

institutions and functionaries

Public institutions, for

the most part, have

been bloated, disor-

ganized, weak and

supportive of corrupt

practices.

Build the capacity of judiciary to manage their caseload 2008-

2012

MoJ

Offer better conditions of service for the judiciary including

living incentives to attract more qualified people to the profes-

sion

2008-

2012

MoJ

Train and deploy an adequate number of qualified male and

female judges to staff all of the County’s courts

2008-

2012

MoJ

Conduct capacity building training of the County Administra-tion staff in the areas of leadership, project management, fi-nancial management and procurement, and service delivery best practices

2008-

2012

MIA

Complete the construction of the County Administrative Building and all necessary facilities such as electricity, water, communication and transportation to house and capacitate the County Authority and Line Ministries

2008-

2012

MPW,

MIA

Construct a District Administrative Building in each of the six Statutory Districts: Dorboh, Forpoh, Boah, Trahn, Jrao, and Jloh

2008-

2012

MPW,

MIA

Construct a Presidential Palace and a Guest House in Bar-clayville

2008-

2012

MPW,

MIA


Strategic objective 3: To expand access to justice, and enhance the protection and promo-

tion of human rights under the Laws of Liberia

There are significant

shortcomings in the

protection and promo-

tion of human rights,

and there is a lack of

equal access to the

justice system, as well

as minimal public

understanding of citi-

zens’ rights under the

law.

Construct a Court House and Judicial Compound for the 12th Judicial Circuit Court and the Resident Judge in Barclayville

2008-

2012

MoJ

Construct a Corrections Center in Barclayville 2008-

2012

Correc-

tions

2.5! Infrastructure and Basic Services Pillar

Roads and Bridges

Roads are the top-most priority issue among the people in Grand Kru. The County

has long been referred to as the “Walking County”, as more than two-thirds of the

County is inaccessible by car. The situation has changed with the landmark

construction and inauguration of the George W. Bush Bridge, but the lack of roads

and bridges continues to hamper development as well as humanitarian assistance.

Even though from 1990 to 2003, the County experienced the kind of logging

exploitation that is often accompanied by improvements in road infrastructure, the

County still makes due with crude log bridges, even over its largest rivers. Moreover,

eight out of twelve months the County is completely isolated from the rest of the

country due to bad roads precipitated by heavy rain.


Table 13: Key Roads in Grand Kru

CodeName of

Corridor

Length

(Mile)Link ID

Name of

Link

Length

(Mile)

Segment

ID

Name of-

Segment

Length

(Mile)

Surface /

Category

RL115Big Swen - Grand Cess

10RL115-

01Big Swen – Grand Cess

10RL115-01-001

Big Swen - Grand Cess

10LateritePrimary

RL116Pleebo –

Barclayville47.6

RL116-01

Pleebo - County Border

8.6RL116-01-001

Pleebo - County Border

8LateritePrimary

RL116Pleebo –

Barclayville47.6

RL116-02

County Border –

Blebo17

RL116-02-001

County Border -

Blebo17

LateritePrimary

RL116Pleebo –

Barclayville47.6

RL116-03

Blebo - Bar-clayville

22RL116-03-001

Blebo - Bar-clayville

22 Primary

Kanweaken

-

Barclayville

Kanweaken-Barclayville

Kanweaken-Barclayville

LateritePrimary

Iron Bridge-Poe

(Dorbor

Iron Bridge-Poe (Dor-

bor)

Iron Bridge-Poe (Dor-

bor)

LateriteSecondary

Dwehken-Parluken (Forpoh)

Dwehken-Parluken(Forpoh)

Dwehken-Parluken (Forpoh)

LateriteSecondary

Wessah-Dorbor

Wessah-Dorbor

Wessah-Dorbor

LateriteSecondary

Barclayville-Pincess

Barclayville-Picnicsss

Barclayville-Picnicess

LateritePrimary

Big Suehn-Wedabo

Big Suehn-Wedabo

Big Suehn-Wedabo

LateriteSecondary

Behwan-Garraway

Behwan-Garraway

Behwan-Garraway

LateritePrimary

Sasstown-Jloh

Felorkree to

Betu

Felorkree to Betu

SavannaSecondary

Nrokia-Sasstown

Nrokia-Sasstown

Nrokia-Sasstown

LateritePrimary

Source: Ministry of Public Works (MPW)


Energy

The County does not have access to public electricity. The County is however

endowed with many waterfalls and rivers with huge potential for power generation.

Communications, postal services and telecommunications

There are no newspapers produced in the County, and as yet no coverage by

commercial mobile phone companies. There are two (2) community radio stations:

the “Voice of Grand Kru”, established in Barclayville with funds from MercyCorps, and

the “Voice of Sasstown” established by Liberia Media Project in Sasstown. Both have

only intermittent coverage due to challenges of procuring of fuel, equipment, and

supplies.

Health

Health services are severely limited, especially in the largely inaccessible districts of

Buah, Forpoh, Jloh, Dorbor and Sasstown. This in combination with the food security

problem means that the health of the people suffers. According to the Comprehensive

Food Security and Nutrition Survey, more than 70 percent of households are

considered to be food insecure or highly vulnerable to food insecurity. Grand Kru also

has the highest chronic child malnutrition rates (47.3%).2 Access to health services

such as immunization, Vitamin A supplementation and de-worming is extremely low,

and infant and child feeding practices are poor due to poverty and lack of information.

Table 14: Health Facilities In Grand Kru County and their Status

# of

FacilityType of Facility Location Status Supported by

1 Rally Time Hospital Grandcess Minor Renovation GoL/ICRC

1 Barclayville Health Center Barclayville Needs Expansion GoL/ICRC

1 Picnicess Clinic Picnicess Minor Renovation GoL

1 Sasstown Clinic Sasstown Major Renovation GoL

1 Garraway Clinic Garraway Minor Renovation GoL/ICRC

1 Behwan Clinic Behwan Complete GoL/ICRC

1 Blebo Clinic Blebo Minor Renovation GoL/ICRC

1 Gbankan Clinic Wadebo Major Renovation GoL

1 Gbalakpo Clinic Filorken Major Renovation GoL

1 Newaken Clinic Newaken Major Renovation GoL/CHAL

1 Nyankunpo Clinic Dorbor Major Renovation GoL

1 Betu Clinic Jloh Major Renovation GoL


2 Mark The Comprehensive Food Security and Nutrition Survey was a joint effort led by the Government of Libe-

ria and the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services in collaboration with FAO, HIC, UNICEF,

UNMIL, WFP, WHO, CRS, GTZ and World Vision

Table 15: Presence of Full Time MoH Health Workers in the County

CM Den-

tist

Dis-

penser

E.H.O. Lab

Aides

Lab

tech

LPN Nurse

Aides

Nurse

Anest.

Phar-

macists

PA Doctors Regis-

trar

RN TTM Social

worker

2 0 11 1 3 2 1 50 0 0 3 0 11 1 15 0

Source: MoH

The health sector is in dire need of assistance. Public health professionals are

completely absent or inadequately trained in Grand Kru. The above table from the

MoH pinpoints the huge gap that exists in this sector. The citizens have called for a

deliberate and sustained effort at deploying trained health professionals across the

district capitals and towns. The Ministry of Health recorded the presence of no

medicine store and no pharmacy in the County in March of 2007.

Water and Sanitation

Only an estimated 7% of the (58,125) population has access to safe drinking water,

while 85% of the population has no access to proper toilet facilities. In 2004 the NGO

Emergency Rehabilitation Services implemented a water and sanitation project with

funding from the Emergency Response Fund. No agency implemented activities in the

sector in 2005. In 2006, the Lutheran World Federation is digging 13 wells and

UNHCR about 17 - 12 new and 5 rehabilitated by their implementing partner

CARITAS. In 2006 the UNMIL QIP unit financed a US$24,500 project through LADI

(Liberian Agency for Development Initiatives) for six wells and three latrines in the

communities of Behwan, Farina Town and Big Suehn, but did not complete the

project.

Figure 3: WATSAN Facilities in the County

Source: Ministry of Health


To determine the population and household ratios to water and sanitation facilities, we

rely on population figures from LISGIS:

Population and Household Ratio to Facilities

Table 16: Population Ratio

Water points Wells Latrines

862-1 196-1 11-1

Table 17: Household Ratio

Water points Wells Latrines

144-1 33-1 2-1

Source: Ministry of Health (MoH)

Access figures for sanitary facilities in the County are encouraging, but access to safe

drinking water remains appallingly limited. One advantage the County has is its

relatively small population. This places them in a position where interventions by

donors quickly pay off by making a real big difference in the lives of locals.

Investments toward provision of safe water will mitigate water-borne diseases. See

below for a comparative analysis of access to water and latrines in 2005 and 2006:

Table 18: Population Access to Safe Water and Waste Disposal

Access to Safe Water

County 2005 2006

Grand Kru 17.3 13.6

Access to Safe Excreta disposal

County 2005 2006

Grand Kru 1 1.1

Source: UNICEF

Most hand pumps and wells used by the local population prior to the war were

destroyed during the conflict. The large majority uses water drawn from creeks and

rivers for personal consumption. The below water and sanitation data was extracted

from the Norwegian Refugee Council’s needs assessment survey conducted in Grand

Kru County between January 2006 and December 2006. Figures contained in here

have not been verified by the Government of Liberia official statistics house LISGIS.

They are entirely based on findings reported by enumerators from NRC and do

provide some good insight into the water and sanitation sector in the County.


Table 19: NRC Water Data

Grand Kru

District Total

Hand pumps in

use

Number of people per hand

pump

Buah 3384 4 846 per one hand pump

Barclayville 4745 13 365 per one hand pump

Sasstown 1150 1 1150 per one hand pump

Trehn 9871 45 219 per one hand pump

Dorbor 2553 0 No hand pump

Forpoh 344 0 No hand pump

Grand Cess 2902 22 131 per one hand pump

Jloh 2149 0 No hand pump

Total 27098 85 318 per one hand pump

Source: NRC Needs Assessment Survey 2007

Table 20: NRC Sanitation Data

Grand Kru

District Total

Latrine

in use Number of people per latrine

Buah 3384 0 No latrines

Barclayville 4745 10 474 per one latrine

Sasstown 1150 1 1150 per one latrine

Trehn 9871 35 282 per one latrine

Dorbor 2553 0 No latrines

Forpoh 344 0 No latrines

Grand Cess 2902 4 725 per one latrine

Jloh 2149 0 !

Total 27098 50 541 per one latrine

Source: NRC Needs Assessment Survey 2007

Education

The County education supervisory team is now staffed with a County Educational

Officer (CEO) and eight District Education Officers (DEOs). But throughout the County,

most schools lack proper structures, chairs and tables, and remain in dire need of

educational resources for both teachers and students. There are still only five schools

equipped with desks and chairs. The lack of trained and qualified teachers especially

for the senior high schools is an issue of high priority.

Table 21: School/Students’ Data – 2007/2008

Number of

Schools

Number of Students

Enrolled

Number of

Teachers

Number of Paid

Teachers

166 25259 756 484

Source: Humanitarian Coordination Section, UNMIL


Table 22: School Census

Ministry of Education School Census 2006

Grand Kru County

District

Total #Pre#Pri-

mary# ALP #Lower

# Up-

per

#

Multi

Number of Stu-

dents

# of

Teachers

SchoolsPrimary

SchoolsSchools Schools!

Secon-

dary

Schools

Secon-

dary

Schools

Lateral

School

s

Total!Total

Male

Total

Female

To-

tal!

React

!

Buah 23 23 22 0 1 0 0 3554 2305 1259 28 0

Upper Kru

Coast62 55 57 13 17 2 0 9313 5526 3787 454 114

Sasstown 15 12 11 0 4 1 0 2307 1412 895 118 53

Lower Kru

Coast10 9 10 2 4 0 0 1872 1134 738 109 41

Durboh 20 20 13 0 1 0 0 1890 1292 598

County 130 119 113 15 27 3 0 1893611669 7277 709 208

Table 23: Level of Schools by district

DistrictTotal Number

of SchoolsLevel of School

Kindergarten Elementary Junior High Senior High

Barclayville 19 2 12 4 1

Trehn 25 1 14 10 --

Wedabo 20 2 13 5 --

Grandcess 11 5 4 1 1

Dorbor 11 -- 9 2 --

Sasstown 10 1 7 1 1

Jloh 10 -- 9 1 --

Buah 13 3 9 1 --

County 119 14 77 25 3

Table 24: Reactivated and trained teachers

Serial/No. County Total No. Teachers

No. Trained Male and Reactivated

No. Trained Female

and Reactivated

Total No.

Reactivated

6 Grand Kru 709 74 5 79

Housing/Shelter

There is currently no assistance being provided for either shelter rehabilitation or

reconstruction. The NRC Needs Assessment Report documented the following

reflecting number of families per district without shelter during the past year (2006).


Table 25: Shelter data

ActivitiesTrehn

district

Buah

district

Barclay-

ville

district

Jloh

district

Grand Cess/

Wedabo

district

Dorbor

district

Sass-town

district

Forpoh

districtTotal

Families

without

shelter

215 61 83 71 58 76 21 18 603

Source: NRC Needs Assessment Report 2007

Interventions – Infrastructure and Basic Services Pillar


Date

Lead Ministry / Agency

Goal: The rehabilitation of infrastructure and the rebuilding of systems to deliver basic services in order to create the conditions and linkages needed to achieve broad-based growth and poverty reduction.

Strategic Objective 1: To ensure all roads are pliable year round, refurbish some public buildings and build capacity necessary for sustained road maintenance program

The county’s road network is in a state of near-total dete-rioration.

Rehabilitate the Pleebo-Barclayville and Kanweaken-Barclayville roads

2008-2012 MPW

Rehabilitate or construct of the following key roads: •Behwan-Garraway•Big Suehn-Grandcess•Big Suehn-Wedabo•Barclayville-Picnicess•Nrokia-Sasstown Beach•Wessah-Dorbor•Iron Bridge (Buah)-Poe (Dorbor)•Dwehken-Parluken (Forpoh)

2008-2012MIA, Agencies

Construct smaller administrative units at civil compound of the eight administrative district headquarters

2008-2012 MIA

Provide inputs and/or incentives to encourage GSM coverage of the County by mobile phone companies

2008-2012

MIAConstruct, staff, and equip a post office in Barkleyville 2008-2012

Construct at least seventy-five two-bedroom low-income housing units in Barclayville

2008-2012

Strategic Objective 2: To reduce the water and sanitation-related disease burden in Liberia

Only about 42% of the Liberian popula-tion has access to improved drinking water, Only about 39% of the popula-tion has adequate means of human waste collection, Operation of water and sanitation facili-ties currently unsus-tainable.

Construct one thousand hand pumps and five hundred sixty latrines throughout the County, amounting to about fifty-five hand pumps and thirty-one latrines in each of the administrative districts

2008-2012 MPW

Carry out a survey of public wells and latrines to determine if the communities are using them properly, and sensitize the communities on their proper use

2008-2012 MPW



Date

Lead Ministry / Agency

Strategic Objective 3: To expand access to basic health care of acceptable quality and establish the building blocks of an equitable, effective, efficient, responsive and sustainable health care delivery system.

Liberia has a health workforce ratio of only 0.18 per 100,000 people.Access to health services is estimated to be 41 percent. Many of the current facilities are not equipped or de-signed for an opti-mal level of service delivery.

Carry out a survey of health facilities to determine the number of trained health personnel, availability of drugs, future management arrangement plans, and availability of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities

2008-2012 MoH

Upgrade the Barclayville Health Center to a fully-equipped hospital and upgrade the Behwan and Sasstown clinics to health centers, and construct, staff, and equip new clinics in Geetugbaken (Buah) and Nyankunpo (Dorbor)

2008-2012 MoH

Provide scholarships and in-service training for health workers 2008-2012 MoH

Organize workshops for the various groups in the County to enhance their understanding about HIV and AIDS

2008-2012 MoH

Strategic Objective 4: To provide access to quality and relevant educational opportunities at all levels and to all, in support of the social and economic development of the nation

Access is severely limited due to insuf-ficient facilities and supplies, facilities disproportionately located out of reach for some regions. Only one third of primary teachers in public schools have been trained. En-rolment rates remain low, especially for girls. Only a small number successfully make the transition from primary to secondary educa-tion.

Rehabilitate or construct schools in adequate numbers to serve the population per the County Action Plan

2008-2012 MoE

Construct high schools in Behwan, Geetugbaken, Nyankunpo, Garraway, and Dwehken, and equip the existing high schools in Barclayville, Grandcess, and Sasstown with libraries and labora-tories

2008-2012 MoE

Stock all schools with adequate materials and furniture, WAT-SAN facilities, teachers’ quarters

2008-2012 MoE

Provide all untrained teachers with adequate training 2008-2012 MoE

Carry out a survey to ascertain the amount of trained teachers, books and materials needed, and to determine the number of girls and boys in each school

2008-2012 MoE

Improve the incentives for teachers, especially those working in remote areas

2008-2012 MoE

Construct a junior college/vocational institute in Barclayville 2008-2012MoE, MoL

Objective 5: To provide reliable, sustainable and affordable energy services to all Liberians in an envi-ronmentally sound manner

Grid electricity is non-existent outside Monrovia.

Construct a mini-hydro dam to provide electricity in each of the six Statutory Districts

2008-2012 MLME

2.6! Cross-Cutting Issues

In the public consultations that led to the development of the CDAs and the PRS,

participants managed to identify a set of five cross-cutting themes for consideration in

implementing local and national development plans: Gender Equity; HIV and AIDS;

Peacebuilding; Environment; and Children and Youth. As part of the effort to

mainstream these issues into all the development initiatives at the County level, this

section lays out the context and objectives for each. The greater PRS document

addresses in detail the specific steps to be taken under the four Pillars to address

each of the cross-cutting issues.


Gender Equity

The County is strongly committed to

gender equity as a means to maintain

peace, reduce poverty, enhance

justice and promote development.

Despite the progress since the end of

the war, gender continues to play a

decisive role in determining access to

resources and services. Women and

girls continue to have limited access

to education, health services and

judicial services, which has severely

curtailed their participation in the

formal economy. Women and girls have been missing out on opportunities and

participation in management and decision-making on all levels of the society. This

trend has contributed to feminization of poverty in the County, and in Liberia as a

whole.

Sexual gender-based violence (SGBV) is blight on Liberian society and for many

Liberian women and girls, the appalling violence they experienced during wartime still

occur. Currently, rape is the most frequently reported serious crime in Liberia. In 2007,

38% of the protection cases reported by UNHCR/NRC monitors were SGBV related

and reports from 2008 show similar trend. Domestic violence is endemic (26% of all

reported protection cases) and Liberia has among the highest rates of teenage

pregnancy in the world. Of the 116 protection incidents reported in the County during

January-May 2008, 60.3% and 53.4% relate to SGBV and domestic violence

respectively.

Destruction of institutions during the war affected all Liberians, but particularly limited

women’s and girls’ access to education; today, the ratio of girls’ to boys’ enrolment is

95/100 at the primary level, decreasing to 75/100 in secondary schools,3 and twice

as many women as men are illiterate. Despite the laws recognizing equality of the

sexes, customary law and practices prevail, some of which are harmful to women

and girls. Customary law infringes on women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to

property.

The CDA lays the groundwork for the achievement of gender equity and women’s and

girls’ empowerment, promoting equitable access to resources and benefits. Gender

equity considerations will be incorporated in the development and implementation of

the economic growth strategy, with the ultimate goal of promoting women’s economic

empowerment. To build a more effective responsive and supportive legal, social and


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political environment, including all aspects of protection and access to justice, health

care, and education, the CDA includes measures for the prevention of and response

to GBV including addressing the roots of the crime and the promotion of increasing

the number of women in national security institutions. Toward the building of capacity,

the County will support the mandate of the Ministry of Gender and Development

(MoGD) to take the lead in implementing and monitoring the National Gender Policy,

the PRS, and international conventions as well as to mainstream gender in legal,

constitutional, and governance reforms. The County authorities are committed to

ensuring that all monitoring data collected are disaggregated by age and sex, where

applicable.

Peacebuilding

While the CDA is an important mechanism through which peacebuilding can be

integrated into poverty reduction, the CDA is itself an exercise in peacebuilding. The

process of preparing the CDA and the PRS through broad-based participation and

consultation, reaching consensus, and transparent and accountable decision-making

inspires confidence in the government and in peaceful coexistence. These principles

are central to building trust and consolidating peace.


While the causes of violent conflict are multi-faceted, deep-rooted and complex, there

are six key issue areas which require focused attention in the implementation of the

CDA to mitigate their potential to mobilize groups for violent action.

Land conflicts – Land disputes have become a manifestation of conflict over identity and citizenship issues. There is a proliferation of land disputes over tenure and ownership, the reintegration of refugees and ex-combatants into communities in relation to property, the property rights of women, and private concessions.

Youth – Young men and women have been denied education, have had their transition from childhood to adulthood interrupted by war, have few skills and are often burdened with many of the responsibilities of adults, particularly as heads of households and income earners. Unmet expectations with this group could trigger significant social unrest, not only in County, but across Liberia and the region.

Political polarization – Reaching political consensus on the rules of the game, supporting reconciliation rather than polarization, and de-linking political and economic power are essential.

Management of natural resources – The County’s wealth of natural resources has not benefited the citizens as a whole but has served to create inequalities and resentment.

The State and its citizens – The Liberian State historically has been more predatory in nature than protective of its citizens; it created and exacerbated social divisions by marginalizing and denigrating certain social groups, and consolidating the domination of elites.

Weak and dysfunctional justice systems – The formal and customary justice systems do not provide justice and have created a system of impunity.

Integrating peacebuilding into local and national development planning requires the

authorities to adopt a new set of principles which are central to the process of

democratization, of improving governance and of consolidating peace. The media,

civil society organizations, the private sector and all other institutions have an

important role to play in ensuring that these principles are upheld:

Meaningful Inclusion and Participation – Creating space for ordinary citizens to speak on the issues that concern them through sustainable processes of consultation is fundamental to peace. This must be inclusive to all ethnic and identity groups such as women and girls, men and boys, ex-combatants, war-affected populations, political parties, and civil society organizations.

Empowerment – In order for all Liberians to participate, disadvantaged, grassroots and rural groups need to be empowered by giving them the tools and capacities to participate and take ownership of decision-making processes.

Consensus building – It is not enough to listen to different perspectives; somehow they must be translated into the public interest as a basis for collective action.


Responsiveness – If no action is taken by local government in response to the concerns expressed by citizens, then the exercise of consultation is futile.

Transparency and accountability – Local government actions must be visible to the public to ensure they are taken in the interest of all citizens and not simply for the sake of any personal or group advancement. The mismanagement of the past, in which a small elite gained economic advantage over the majority, was a key factor in the conflict.

Fairness and impartiality – Rules and opportunities must apply to all citizens equally, regardless of status. The failure of the state in the past to be a fair and impartial mediator was another key source of conflict.

Environmental Issues

The people of the County, and especially the poor, are critically dependent on fertile

soil, clean water and healthy ecosystems for their livelihoods and wellbeing. This

reliance creates complex, dynamic interactions between environmental conditions,

people’s access to and control over environmental resources, and poverty. In addition

to being vulnerable to environmental hazards, the poor are usually confronted by

economic, technological and policy-related barriers in deriving full benefits from their

environmental assets. Taking strategic actions based on knowledge of the poverty-

environment relationship is a prerequisite for enduring success in the effort to reduce

poverty. Investments in the productivity of environmental assets will generate large

benefits for the poor and for the enhancement of overall growth.

The CDA lays the foundation for sustainable protection and use of the County’s

natural environment for the sake of improving livelihoods and wellbeing. The

“resource curse” that characterized Liberia’s past was typified by mismanagement of

the proceeds from extractive industries and their misuse that undermined national

security, governance and rule of law; and channeled most of the benefits of

economic growth to a small elite. Eliminating this curse requires the establishment or

restoration of proper administration and management of natural resource uses.

HIV and AIDS

HIV and AIDS is a major challenge because the epidemic has the potential to slow the

progress of many initiatives meant to build much-needed human capital and revitalize

the economy. Ensuring that this does not happen requires that the citizens be

empowered with the appropriate skills to arrest the spread of HIV and to minimize the

impact. Integrating HIV and AIDS into poverty reduction strategies helps to create the

necessary policy and planning environment for a comprehensive, multi-sectoral

response.

While no county-specific data is available, a 2007 DHS estimates national HIV

prevalence at 1.5 percent, or 1.8 percent for females and 1.2 percent for males. A

previous estimate of 5.7 percent was based on the results of sentinel surveillance


among pregnant women and girls attending ten antenatal care (ANC) clinics in urban

areas. Future studies will seek to reconcile these seemingly disparate findings.

In any event, the war left most of the population severely challenged in meeting their

social, cultural and economic needs, thereby making them vulnerable to a sharp

increase in HIV prevalence, the likely result of which would be a negative impact on

development: increased child and adult morbidity and mortality, increased

absenteeism at the workplace and in schools, and lower economic output, among

other effects.

HIV and AIDS-related vulnerability impacts a broad spectrum of the population,

especially young people and females in particular, such that in Liberia as elsewhere,

there is an increasing feminization of the epidemic.

By strengthening the health infrastructure at the County level, the CDA works to

promote human development by reducing the impact of HIV and AIDS vulnerability,

morbidity and mortality. County health and social welfare authorities will participate in

the development and implementation of a new national multi-sectoral strategic

framework led by the NAC, reducing new HIV infections through the provision of

information, and scaling up access to treatment and care services, mitigating the

impact of the epidemic on those already infected and affected.

Children and Youth

The County is strongly committed to reducing and laying the groundwork for

eliminating child poverty as a key feature of the CDA and PRS. Children are at high

risk of becoming the next generation of impoverished citizens unless substantive

measures are taken to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Poverty reduction

efforts must have children at the core.

Children make up the majority of the population of the County. Nationally, around 17

percent of child deaths are attributable to malaria and another 20 percent to

preventable environmental diseases such as diarrhea and cholera. Almost forty

percent of children are growth-stunted from poor nutrition, about one third of under-

fives are severely underweight, and recent estimates indicate that one in five deaths in

children under-five is attributable to malnutrition. Less than half of all births are

delivered by a health professional, which contributes to an unacceptably high (and

apparently rising) maternal mortality rate.

Furthermore, young female citizens suffer the brunt of the epidemic of gender based

violence (GBV). The majority of girls have their first child before reaching the age of 18

due to forced early marriages and rape. As a result, the HIV infection rate among

pregnant female adolescents and young women was 5.7 percent in 2007.

Many of the young people have spent more time engaged in war than in school.

Nationally, almost 35 percent of the population has never attended school, including


nearly 44 percent of females. Illiteracy rates among children and young people remain

high at 68 percent (male 55 percent and female 81 percent).

As discussed above, only a fraction of classrooms in the County is in good condition

with furniture and functioning latrines, and textbooks are scarce. With educational

levels low and youth unemployment on the increase, the County’s young people lack

the necessary tools to make productive contributions to the social and economic

development of the nation.

Children and youth also have limited access to justice or the protection and

enforcement of their rights under the legal system. Protecting the rights of children will

contribute to achieving poverty reduction goals and ensure the active participation of

children and young people in supporting good governance and the growth agenda

over the long term.

County authorities will make special efforts to ensure that its institutions, policies and

processes consider the needs of children and youth as a priority by implementing a

human rights approach to development and an inclusive and participatory

governance structure.


Human Rights

The Government of Liberia and county authorities are deeply committed to upholding

internationally-recognized human rights standards. After many years of generalized

deprivation and rampant, even systematic abuses, the country has made important

progress towards the fulfillment of its human rights obligations. The overall security

situation is now stable, control has been asserted in areas previously held by rebel

groups, and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been established.

The actions called for in this CDA and in the PRS 2008-2011 are intended to make

further progress toward addressing the many human rights concerns that remain.

Limited access to justice, and weak judicial and security systems continue to lead to

incidents of mob justice, trial by ordeal, prolonged pre-trial detentions, and

overcrowding in prisons. Access to quality health care and education is a constant

challenge for most rural residents, as the number of schools, hospitals and qualified

personnel do not meet basic needs. The epidemic of violence and harmful traditional

practices against women and girls continues in spite of the enactment of a new rape

law and other legislation.

As evidenced throughout the PRS, the Government will continue to enact progressive

legislation and take policy steps toward the furtherance of human rights. Local and

national officeholders will hold personnel of all sectors accountable to uphold

international human rights standards. Civil society organizations and the private sector

will play an important role not only in supporting government efforts in the human

rights realm, but also in offering constructive input to policy development and

implementation.


PART THREE - IMPLEMENTATION

3.1! Funding for County Development

Being the embodiment of the needs and aspirations of the citizens of the County, and

having been developed through a participatory process based on the input of a wide

variety of stakeholders in the public, civil society, the private sector, and local and

national government, the CDA can and must be taken as the principal guide to

funding for development activities in the County. The projects and priorities identified

above are those which should be the principal targets for funding from the County

Development Fund, from donors and from local and international development

partners during the CDA implementation period.

3.2! Building Capacity

The low capacity of the County’s public and private institutions continues to be a

constraint on effectiveness and development in general. The combination over many

years of political patronage and conflict has left the County with high numbers of

unskilled workers with little technical or professional capacity to produce goods and

deliver services.

Over the implementation period of the CDA, agriculture and natural resource-based

sectors will drive growth, but their continued development will require a more capable

work force. As security conditions and basic services improve, members of the

Diaspora may return and inject capacity within certain sectors, but the Government

and the County must proactively take steps to increase capacity through strategic

interventions, including vocational training and adult education.

The first hurdle in dealing with this lack of capacity is identifying personnel that are

capable of addressing the problems. The Civil Service Agency (CSA) and other

institutions which are trying to close the human capacity gap face the same

constraints and challenges as other ministries and agencies. To be successful,

qualified Liberians from across the Government must be recruited to engage in and

lead the process and maximize transfer of knowledge and skills through on-the-job

training. Donor and civil society assistance has and will continue to play a central role

in supporting this process. Reforming the civil service and building human capacity

across public institutions are components of a broader public sector reform process,

which will address structural and institutional inefficiencies.

There are no quick fixes. The Government will develop a 10-year capacity building

plan to organize national efforts and leverage support for Liberia’s capacity

development programs. This plan, to be completed in 2009, will articulate well-

sequenced, strategic interventions to stimulate capacity development within the

private and public sectors and to reform the civil service.


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3.3! Managing Potential Risks and Constraints

A number of risks and constraints could derail the implementation of the CDA and

frustrate the effort toward generating rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth. The

major ones include shortfalls in external financing, limited leadership as well as

administrative and technical capacity, and external and internal instability. Although

these risks and constraints are real, the potential

consequences arising from them can be reduced

through their identification and the implementation

of mitigation strategies.

3.4! Monitoring and Evaluation

To ensure successful implementation of the CDA/

PRS, a transparent and effective monitoring and

evaluation system is required. While the County

Development Steering Committees (CDSCs) have

a central role in coordinating the CDA/PRS

implementat ion, th is forum, chai red by

Superintendent and comprised of all line ministries

and agencies as well as development partners in

the county, is responsible for tracking progress

towards CDA goals and objectives.

The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) document

(Chapter 13) outlines the institutional framework

and reporting mechanisms for monitoring of PRS

key output and outcome indicators. This

framework and the PRS Monitoring and Evaluation

Indicators (see hereafter) have been developed

through stakeholder consultations led by the PRS

M&E working group chaired by LISGIS and LRDC

Secretariat. To track progress and achievements

towards the targets set in the PRS, outcomes as

well as deliverables need to be monitored.

The baseline data have been generated for most of

indicators, drawing where possible on quantitative

and qualitative surveys conducted by LISGIS over

the last year, including the Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ), the

Demographic Health Survey (DHS) and Poverty Participatory Assessment (PPA). In

some instances where baselines are not yet available, ministries and agencies will

insure that those are being collected. Recently completed National Population and

Housing Census will further provide a rich socio-economic data set disaggregated per

county, district and even down to clan level.


Tapping Dormant Human Capital: Changing

Minds, Changing Attitudes

“In order to revitalize the economy, we ourselves

have to transform our view of what government is.”

– Hon. Julia Duncan Cassell, Superintendent,

Grand Bassa County

Much of Liberia’s human capital sits idle as capable

Liberians wait for someone – the Government,

NGOs, or others – to improve their lives. A central

thrust over the near term will be to encourage

citizens to trade their feelings of dependency for a

commitment to hard work and self-reliance.

In March 2008, the President stated, “Government

can strive to create an enabling environment, to

create the avenues for success. But it is you who

must seize these opportunities, you who must put

in the hard work to make our collective dream a

reality. You must not wait for the Government to

make your life better, but rather work to better your

own life.”

Through labor-based public works, SME support

programs, work ethics lessons in the primary

school curriculum, and other means, the PRS

implementation period will stress the need for

active commitment and hard work to reduce

poverty. Poverty will only be reduced if the people

themselves play an active role in governance, and

in laboring to improve their own lives. In this

context, the Ministry of Information, Culture, and

Tourism is pursuing an agenda it calls “Changing

Minds, Changing Attitudes”. Liberia will only be as

strong as the hearts, minds, and working hands of

its people.

Monitoring impact

At the national level LRDC Secretariat will be the key institution responsible for

Monitoring and Evaluation of the PRS. Together with LISGIS, responsible for national

statistics, the LRDC Secretariat will produce annual reports on progress towards each

of the indicators for review by the Pillars, the Cabinet and the LRDC Steering

Committee. The information will be published as part of Annual National PRS

Progress Report for public dissemination and discussion, including at the county level.

Further LRDC and LISGIS will issue a periodic report based on County-disaggregated

data emerging from line ministries and surveys conducted at national level. Along with

administrative data and statistics collected at the county level, it will insure that County

officials have quality data at their disposal, assisting with the CDA implementation.

Monitoring deliverables

Projects and programs under the PRS deliverables will be implemented at the county

level. County authorities will play an essential role in contributing to the regular reports

on PRS deliverables that will allow the Government and partners through Cabinet and

LRDC Steering Committee to make adjustment to programs and activities where

necessary.

The PRS took into account the county perspective and its development projects

emanate from the CDAs where possible. Therefore, when county authorities track

progress towards implementation of the CDA action matrixes (in Annex), they will at

the same time provide input into monitoring of the PRS deliverables.

Both for the PRS and CDA, program and project level M&E reporting will originate

from line ministry/agency representatives at the county level who will share their

reports with the Office of the County Superintendent in addition to their respective

ministries/agencies. These reports and information will be shared by the Office of the

County Superintendent at the county level, among others through the CDSC

meetings.

Strengthening the M&E Foundation

Over the implementation period for the PRS and CDA, the Government together with

partners are committed to strengthen and support monitoring and evaluation capacity

and institutional framework at the county level. The CDSC as the coordinating forum

for implementation of PRS/CDA at the county level is in process of being established.

County authorities capacity for information management and monitoring will be built,

based on on-going initiatives.

Together with County Acton Matrix developed through CDA process, PRS M&E

indicators provide the tool for monitoring at the county level. It will be accompanied

with detailed manual on what information and data that are required and how it will be

collected/compiled for tracking the progress towards these indicators and outputs.


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al

Acc

ou

nts

” in

th

e fu

ture

)

CB

LM

DG

8

Exp

ort

of

goo

ds,

f.o

.b. (M

illion

s of

US

D)

Ou

tpu

t2007: 227

2008: 333

2009: 498

2010: 760

2011: 1027

An

nu

al

Bala

nce

of

Paym

ents

CB

LM

DG

8

Fore

ign

Dir

ect

Inve

stm

ent

(Million

s of

US

D)

Ou

tpu

t2007: 120

2008: 397

2009: 407

2010: 339

2011: 339

An

nu

al

Bala

nce

of

Paym

ents

CB

L-

Con

sum

er P

rice

In

dex

(%

ch

an

ge)

Ou

tcom

e9%

2008: 10.6

%2009: 9.0

%2010: 8.0

%2011: 7.0

%

An

nu

al

Harm

on

ized

C

on

sum

er P

rice

In

dex

(H

CP

I)

CB

L-

Gra

nd K

ru C

ounty

Develo

pm

ent A

genda!

40

1 A

nticip

ate

d d

ate

for

achie

vem

ent

of ta

rget.

2 T

his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

agg

regate

d b

asis

by

sex.

3 T

his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

agg

regate

d b

asis

by

county

and

num

ber

of fe

male

offi

cers

.4 T

his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

agg

regate

d b

asis

by

age o

f th

e in

div

idual,

fem

ale

/male

head

of househo

ld,

and

urb

an/r

ura

l.5 T

his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

agg

regate

d b

asis

by

age o

f th

e in

div

idual,

fem

ale

/male

head

of househo

ld,

and

urb

an/r

ura

l.

Ind

ica

tor

Ty

pe

Ba

se

lin

eT

arg

et1

Ta

rg

et

Da

teS

ou

rce

of

Ve

rifi

ca

tio

n

Le

ad

Min

istr

y/

Ag

en

cy

MD

G

Re

late

d?

Ag

ric

ult

ure

Volu

me

of

agri

cult

ura

l p

rod

uct

ion

(%

gro

wth

),

dis

aggre

gate

d b

y fo

od

an

d n

on

-food

cro

ps,

n

um

ber

of

acr

es o

f la

nd

cu

ltiv

ati

on

(co

mm

erci

al/

pri

vate

farm

s)

Ou

tpu

t7%

2008: 3.6

%2009: 3.7

%2010: 3.8

%2011: 3.8

%

An

nu

al

MoA

MoA

-

Fo

re

str

y

Volu

me

of

tim

ber

pro

du

cts

[cate

gori

es t

o b

e sp

ecifi

ed b

y F

DA

] p

rod

uce

d (in

‘000 c

ub

ic m

eter

s)O

utp

ut

0F

Y 0

8/

09: 536

FY

09/

10: 903

FY

10/

11: 1327

An

nu

al

FD

AF

DA

-

Min

ing

Volu

me

of

iron

ore

pro

du

ced

O

utp

ut

03 m

illion

ton

sE

nd

of

PR

S P

erio

dM

LM

EM

LM

E-

La

nd

an

d E

nv

iro

nm

en

t

Rev

iew

an

d r

eform

by

Lan

d C

om

mis

sion

of

all

asp

ects

of

lan

d p

olicy

, la

w, an

d a

dm

inis

trati

on

Ou

tpu

tN

/A

Com

ple

ted

ref

orm

of

lan

d p

olicy

, la

w, an

d

ad

min

istr

ati

on

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

Lan

d C

om

mis

sion

an

nu

al re

port

GC

, L

C (w

hen

es

tab

lish

ed)

-

Priv

ate

Se

cto

r I

nve

stm

en

t

Nu

mb

er o

f n

ew b

usi

nes

ses

regis

tere

d6

Ou

tpu

t2007: 1047, 172

(In

crea

se o

f 15%

per

ye

ar)

2008: 1204, 197

2009: 1227, 226

2010: 1411, 260

2011: 1622, 299

An

nu

al

MoC

I A

nn

ual

Rep

ort

MoC

I, N

IC-

Fin

an

cia

l S

ecto

r

Ban

kin

g s

yste

m d

eposi

ts/

GD

P (%

)O

utp

ut

21.4

%30.0

%E

nd

of

PR

S P

erio

dC

BL

CB

L-

Non

-per

form

ing loan

s as

a p

erce

nt

of

tota

l ass

ets

of

the

ban

kin

g s

yste

m (%

)O

utp

ut

31.0

%15.0

%E

nd

of

PR

S P

erio

dC

BL

CB

L-

Em

plo

ym

en

t

Em

plo

ymen

t ra

te (%

ab

ove

th

e b

ase

lin

e as

det

erm

ined

by

MoL

2008/

2009 lab

or

mark

et

surv

ey) 7

Ou

tcom

eT

BD

TB

DA

nn

ual

MoL

lab

or

mark

et

surv

eyM

oL

-

Wage

emp

loym

ent

in t

he

non

-agri

cult

ura

l se

ctor

(% o

f to

tal em

plo

ymen

t)O

utc

om

eT

BD

T

BD

An

nu

al

MoL

lab

or

mark

et

surv

eyM

oL

-

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te O

wn

ed

En

terp

ris

es

Net

tota

l tr

an

sfer

s to

SO

Es/

para

stata

ls a

s %

of

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rnm

ent

reve

nu

eO

utp

ut

2.4

%1%

An

nu

al

Nati

on

al B

ud

get

MoF,

BoB

-

Gra

nd K

ru C

ounty

Develo

pm

ent A

genda!

41

6 T

his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

ag

gre

gate

d b

asis

by

Lib

erian/f

ore

ign-o

wned

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his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

agg

regate

d b

asis

by

sex a

nd

age.

Ind

ica

tor

Ty

pe

Ba

se

lin

eT

arg

et1

Ta

rg

et

Da

teS

ou

rce

of

Ve

rifi

ca

tio

n

Le

ad

Min

istr

y/

Ag

en

cy

MD

G

Re

late

d?

Pil

lar I

II:

Go

ve

rn

an

ce

an

d R

ule

of L

aw

Go

ve

rn

an

ce

Re

for

m

% o

f p

ub

lic

exp

end

itu

re t

ran

sfer

red

to loca

l au

thori

ties

8

Ou

tcom

e6.1

%2009: 6.6

%2010: 7.1

%2011: 7.7

%

An

nu

al

Nati

on

al B

ud

get

MIA

-

Per

cen

t of

the

pop

ula

tion

th

at

per

ceiv

es t

he

Gove

rnm

ent

of

Lib

eria

to b

e p

erfo

rmin

g b

ette

r th

an

in

th

e p

revi

ou

s ye

ar

Ou

tcom

eT

BD

60%

An

nu

ally

An

nu

al

Qu

esti

on

will b

e ad

ded

to f

utu

re

CW

IQ s

urv

eys

CS

A-

Nu

mb

er o

f m

inis

trie

s, a

gen

cies

an

d S

OE

s/p

ara

stata

ls r

estr

uct

ure

d b

ase

d o

n r

evis

ed,

pu

blish

ed a

nd

ad

op

ted

man

date

s

Ou

tpu

t0

TB

DE

nd

of

PR

S P

erio

d G

C s

tatu

s re

port

GC

, C

SA

-

Sco

re o

n T

ran

spare

ncy

In

tern

ati

on

al C

orr

up

tion

P

erce

pti

on

In

dex

Ou

tcom

e2.1

ou

t of

10

4.0

ou

t of

10

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

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nsp

are

ncy

In

tern

ati

on

al

Corr

up

tion

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erce

pti

on

In

dex

GC

, A

CC

-

Ru

le o

f L

aw

Nu

mb

er o

f b

enefi

ciari

es o

f le

gal aid

(ci

vil/

crim

inal)

Ou

tpu

tT

BD

TB

DA

nn

ual

TB

DM

oJ

-

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mb

er o

f C

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it C

ou

rts

an

d M

agis

teri

al C

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rts

reh

ab

ilit

ate

d/

con

stru

cted

an

d f

un

ctio

nin

g (ju

dged

by

wh

eth

er a

leg

al p

roce

edin

g h

as

bee

n c

om

ple

ted

in

th

at

cou

rt)

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tpu

tC

ircu

it C

ou

rts:

7 o

f 15

Magis

teri

al

Cou

rts:

5 o

f 124

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cuit

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rts:

13 o

f 15

Magis

teri

al

Cou

rts:

43 o

f 124

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

Jud

icia

ry Q

uart

erly

an

d A

nn

ual

Rep

ort

s/G

C S

tatu

s R

eport

s

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icia

ry, M

oJ

-

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mb

er o

f Ju

dic

ial O

ffice

rs t

rain

ed a

nd

dep

loye

d

at

Cir

cuit

/M

agis

teri

al C

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(dis

aggre

gate

d b

y gen

der

)

Ou

tpu

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agis

trate

s22 J

ust

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of

the

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403 M

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27 J

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of

the

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ce

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

Jud

icia

ry Q

uart

erly

an

d A

nn

ual

Rep

ort

s/M

oJ

An

nu

al R

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s

Jud

icia

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oJ

-

% o

f Ju

ven

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Off

end

ers

wit

h a

cces

s to

re

hab

ilit

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on

ser

vice

sO

utp

ut

TB

DT

BD

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

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icia

ry Q

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erly

an

d A

nn

ual

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s/G

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tatu

s R

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s

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icia

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oJ

-

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f ca

ses

succ

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ully

pro

secu

ted

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tpu

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32%

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crea

se o

f 50%

)E

nd

of

PR

S P

erio

dJu

dic

iary

Qu

art

erly

an

d A

nn

ual

Rep

ort

s/G

C S

tatu

s R

eport

s

Jud

icia

ry, M

oJ

-

Gra

nd K

ru C

ounty

Develo

pm

ent A

genda!

42

8 T

his

ind

icato

r w

ill a

lso b

e t

racked

on a

dis

agg

regate

d b

asis

by c

ounty

.

Ind

ica

tor

Ty

pe

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se

lin

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arg

et1

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rg

et

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teS

ou

rce

of

Ve

rifi

ca

tio

n

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ad

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istr

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cy

MD

G

Re

late

d?

Pil

lar I

V:

Infr

astr

uctu

re

an

d B

asic

Se

rv

ice

s

Ro

ad

s a

nd

Brid

ge

s

Nu

mb

er o

f n

ew m

iles

of

road

s re

hab

ilit

ate

d/

reco

nst

ruct

ed9

Ou

tpu

tN

/A

Tota

l p

rim

ary

: 1,1

87

miles

(1,0

75 t

o b

e p

aved

, su

rface

dre

ssin

g)

All w

eath

er s

econ

dary

ro

ad

s: 3

00 m

iles

Fee

der

road

s: 4

00 m

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Nei

gh

borh

ood

road

s: 2

12

m

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En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

MP

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rogre

ss

rep

ort

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PW

-

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son

-mon

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of

road

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plo

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per

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24,1

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year

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year

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nu

al

MP

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PW

-

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nsp

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mb

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f b

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s re

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larl

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rovi

a. O

utp

ut

970

En

d o

f P

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Per

iod

MT

A A

nn

ual

Rep

ort

MT

A-

Nu

mb

er o

f ve

ssel

s en

teri

ng a

nd

cle

ari

ng F

reep

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of

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rovi

a p

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on

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28

32

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d o

f P

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iod

NPA

Mon

thly

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tati

stic

s on

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o

an

d V

esse

l T

raffi

cs

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, N

PA

-

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ter a

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nit

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on

Acc

ess

to s

afe

dri

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ate

r 1

0O

utc

om

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10

Incr

ease

by

25%

(to

50%

)E

nd

of

PR

S P

erio

dV

PA

, U

NIC

EF,

C

WIQ

MP

WM

DG

7

Acc

ess

to im

pro

ved

san

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on

11

Ou

tcom

e15%

11

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ease

by

25%

(to

40%

)E

nd

of

PR

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dV

PA

, U

NIC

EF

MP

WM

DG

7

He

alt

h

Ch

ild

mort

ality

rate

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tcom

e111 p

er 1

000

Red

uce

by

15%

(to

94/

1000)

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

DH

SM

oH

SW

MD

G 4

Mate

rnal m

ort

ality

rate

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utc

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er 1

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00

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bir

ths

Red

uce

by

10%

(to

895/

100,0

00)

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

DH

SM

oH

SW

MD

G 5

Ch

ild

maln

utr

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of

child

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un

der

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(stu

nti

ng,

wast

ing,

hei

gh

t fo

r age,

wei

gh

t fo

r h

eigh

t, w

eigh

t fo

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Ou

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eigh

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t: 7

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Imp

rove

wei

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by

15%

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

DH

SM

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SW

MD

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Gra

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Develo

pm

ent A

genda!

43

9 T

his

ind

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ill a

lso b

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racked

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dis

agg

regate

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asis

by

typ

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all-

weath

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hb

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road

s.

10 T

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resulted

in far

hig

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figure

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access t

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are

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para

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imp

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pe

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trace

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y m

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nd

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, p

ills

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c.)

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dom

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%

15%

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y m

eth

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nd

of

PR

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HS

MoH

SW

MD

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HIV

pre

vale

nce

rate

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isaggre

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x a

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age)

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o

incr

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nd

of

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SW

MD

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per

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3 (2006)

0.0

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nd

of

PR

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Rap

id

Ass

essm

ent

MoH

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8 (2006)

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6E

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essm

ent

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tpu

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2 (2006)

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4E

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of

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essm

ent

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en

rollm

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o in

pri

mary

ed

uca

tion

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der

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utc

om

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rim

ary

: 37%

Sec

on

dary

:15%

Pri

mary

: 44.8

%S

econ

dary

: 20%

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

CW

IQM

oE

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ISM

DG

2

Gen

der

Pari

ty I

nd

ex in

pri

mary

en

rollm

ent

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tcom

e43 g

irls

for

ever

y

100 b

oys

48 g

irls

for

ever

y 100

boys

En

d o

f P

RS

Per

iod

2007-2

008 S

chool

Cen

sus

MoE

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ISM

DG

3

Tea

cher

to s

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Dorb

oh

Jarb

lake

nW

essa

h,

Nya

nku

np

o,

Barf

orw

in, N

ew

Tow

n, W

alp

o,

Gove

rnm

ent

Cam

p

MP

W, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Feb

. 2008-F

eb. 2011

Ro

ad

s28

. C

on

stru

ct a

road

fro

m

Dw

ehke

n t

o J

arb

lake

n.

Dw

ehke

nD

orb

od

ru,

Gb

alleh

Dw

ehke

n,

Jarb

lake

nM

PW

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Marc

h 2

008-

Marc

h

2011

Ch

all

en

ge

Acti

on

Re

qu

ire

dL

oca

tio

nL

ea

dC

oll

ab

ora

tin

g

Pa

rtn

er

Co

mm

un

ity

C

on

trib

uti

on

Tim

e F

ra

me

Dis

tric

tC

lan

Cit

y/

To

wn

Ro

ad

s29

. R

ehab

ilit

ate

th

e ro

ad

fr

om

Dw

ehke

n t

o W

rop

luke

n

an

d c

on

stru

ct r

oad

fro

m

Gb

an

ken

to T

ayb

ue.

Wro

gb

aD

weh

ken

, W

rop

luke

n,

Gb

an

ken

, T

ayb

ue

MP

W, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Feb

. 2008-F

eb. 2012

Ro

ad

s30

. C

on

stru

ct a

road

fro

m

Wro

plu

ken

th

rou

gh

C

hen

bet

ee, D

oes

wen

, Jl

ate

ken

, an

d W

arw

leke

n t

o

Seb

od

o a

nd

Poe.

Fen

itoe

Ch

enb

ette

eW

rop

luke

n,

Ch

enb

etee

, D

oes

wen

, Jl

ate

ken

, W

arw

leke

n,

Seb

od

o, P

oe

MP

W, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Feb

. 2008-F

eb. 2012

Ro

ad

s31

. C

on

stru

ct a

road

fro

m

Karq

uek

po/

Nip

likp

o t

o

Nif

fu B

each

.

Up

per

Jlo

hN

ifor

Karq

uek

po, N

ipli

Kp

o, N

iffu

Bea

chM

PW

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Marc

h 2

008-M

arc

h

2012

Ro

ad

s32

. C

on

stru

ct a

road

fro

m

Sass

tow

n t

o B

etu

Bea

ch.

Up

per

Jlo

hG

batu

Bet

uM

PW

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Feb

. 2008-F

eb.2

012

Ro

ad

s33

. C

on

stru

ct a

road

fro

m

Dorb

or

to B

etu

.U

pp

er J

loh

Gb

atu

Dorb

or,

Bet

uM

PW

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Marc

h 2

008-M

arc

h

2009

Ro

ad

s34

. R

ehab

ilit

ate

majo

r ro

ad

fr

om

Set

ken

to N

rokw

ia.

Nro

wls

oW

eslo

Nrw

oki

a, W

essa

h,

Sle

yon

MP

W, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Feb

. 2008-F

eb. 2012

Ro

ad

s35

. R

ehab

ilit

ate

th

e ro

ad

fr

om

Nro

wki

a t

hro

ugh

W

essa

h t

o S

leyo

n

Nro

wls

oW

eslo

Nro

wki

a, D

ayo

kpo

MP

W, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Lab

or

Marc

h 2

008-M

arc

h

2012

Ro

ad

s36

. R

ehab

ilit

ate

th

e ro

ad

fr

om

Nro

wki

a t

o D

ayo

kpo.

Nro

wls

oW

eslo

Wes

sah

, N

yan

kup

oM

PW

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Marc

h 2

008-M

arc

h

2009

Ro

ad

s37

. C

on

stru

ct a

road

fro

m

Wes

sah

to N

yan

kun

po.

Nro

wls

oW

eslo

Wes

sah

, N

yan

kup

oM

PW

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Feb

. 2008-F

eb2012

Remarks

The f

ollo

win

g t

hre

e m

ajo

r ro

ad p

roje

cts

were

pre

viously

pla

nned

. Though t

hey a

re e

xp

licitl

y m

entio

ned

in t

he

County

Actio

n P

lan,

it is

imp

ort

ant

to in

clu

de t

hem

here

to a

void

any

pro

ject

dup

licatio

n.

Barc

layv

ille t

o P

leeb

o H

ighw

ay-

Min

istr

y of P

ub

lic W

ork

s

Kanw

eaken (R

iverg

ee) th

rough N

row

kia

to B

arc

layv

ille-G

erm

an A

gro

Actio

n (G

AA

)

Big

Sew

en t

o G

rand

cess-U

ND

P

Ch

all

en

ge

Acti

on

Re

qu

ire

dL

oca

tio

nL

ea

dC

oll

ab

ora

tin

g

Pa

rtn

er

Co

mm

un

ity

Co

ntr

ibu

tio

n

Tim

e

Fra

me

Esti

ma

ted

Co

st

Dis

tric

tC

lan

Cit

y/

To

wn

Vil

lag

e

Ed

uca

tio

n1. R

ehab

ilit

ate

New

ake

n

Ele

men

tary

an

d J

un

ior

Hig

h S

chool.

Tre

mb

oN

ewake

nN

ewake

nM

OE

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Lab

or

Ap

ril 2008

to Ap

ril 2009

Ed

uca

tio

n2. C

on

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

an

d J

un

ior

Hig

h S

chool in

Sorr

oke

n.

Tre

mb

oS

orr

oke

nS

orr

oke

nM

OE

, G

oL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Lab

or

Ap

ril 2008

to Ap

ril 2009

Ed

uca

tio

n3. C

on

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

G

ban

ken

.

Tre

mb

oG

ban

ken

Gb

an

ken

MO

E,

GoL

Ap

ril 2008

to A

pri

l

2012

Ed

uca

tio

n4. R

econ

stru

ct G

ban

ken

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool an

d

up

gra

de

to S

enio

r H

igh

S

chool.

Gra

nd

Ces

s/W

edab

oG

ban

ken

Gb

an

ken

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2009

Ed

uca

tio

n5. R

econ

stru

ct J

latw

en

Jun

ior

Hig

h S

chool

Gra

nd

Ces

s/W

edab

oG

ban

ken

Jlatw

enM

OE

, G

oL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2009

Ed

uca

tio

n6. C

on

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

W

edab

o B

each

Gra

nd

Ces

s/W

edab

oZ

olo

ken

Wed

ab

o B

each

MO

E,

GoL

Feb

.2008-

Feb

.2010

Ed

uca

tio

n7. C

on

stru

ct a

Ju

nio

r H

igh

S

chool in

C

hen

rin

ken

an

d a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

A

nn

ake

n a

nd

an

E

lem

enta

ry S

chool in

W

olo

ken

# 2

Kp

iA

nn

ake

nC

hen

rin

ken

An

nake

nW

olo

ken

# 2

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n8. C

on

stru

ct E

lem

enta

ry

Sch

ools

in

Gee

tugb

ake

n,

Norw

ieke

n a

nd

Jarj

lken

.

Gee

Gee

tub

ake

nG

eetu

gb

ake

nN

orw

ieke

nJa

rjlk

en

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ch

all

en

ge

Acti

on

Re

qu

ire

dL

oca

tio

nL

ea

dC

oll

ab

ora

tin

g

Pa

rtn

er

Co

mm

un

ity

Co

ntr

ibu

tio

n

Tim

e

Fra

me

Esti

ma

ted

Co

st

Dis

tric

tC

lan

Cit

y/

To

wn

Vil

lag

e

Ed

uca

tio

n9. C

on

stru

ct a

Hig

h

Sch

ool in

Ble

bo. Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

Ja

ywon

ken

an

d a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

K

arw

olo

ken

.

Ble

bo

Wark

enB

leb

oJa

ywon

ken

Karw

olo

ken

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n10. R

econ

stru

ct W

eslo

E

lem

enta

ry a

nd

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

Wes

sah

; an

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

N

rokw

ia a

nd

an

E

lem

enta

ry S

chool in

P

utu

Tow

n.

Nro

Wle

soW

eslo

Wes

sah

Nro

kwia

Pu

tu T

ow

n

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2009

Ed

uca

tio

n11. R

ehab

ilit

ate

an

d

furn

ish

Sass

tow

n H

igh

S

chool an

d p

rovi

de

text-

bo

oks

.

Fel

o/

Jekw

eJe

kwi

Sass

tow

nM

OE

, G

oL

Marc

h

2008-

Marc

h 2

009

Ed

uca

tio

n12. C

on

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

Je

kwik

po a

nd

Dayo

kpo

Fel

o /

Jek

we

Fel

oJe

kwik

po

Dayo

kpo

MO

E,

GoL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n13. C

on

stru

ct a

new

sc

hool b

uild

ing a

t W

ate

rsid

e E

lem

enta

ry

Jun

ior

Hig

h S

chool an

d

Sw

eken

. C

on

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

an

d J

un

ior

Hig

h S

chool in

Gen

oya

.

Garr

aw

ay

Po-R

iver

Klu

fuel

Wate

rsid

eG

enoya

Sw

eken

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2011

Ed

uca

tio

n14. R

ehab

ilit

ate

Bu

ah

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

G

eetu

gb

ake

n.

Con

stru

ct a

Ju

nio

r H

igh

S

chool in

Jla

teke

n a

nd

an

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool

bet

wee

n T

orw

roke

n a

nd

T

ayb

ue.

Bu

ah

Gee

tub

ake

nG

eetu

gb

ake

nJl

ate

ken

Tarw

roke

nT

ayb

ue

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2012

Ch

all

en

ge

Acti

on

Re

qu

ire

dL

oca

tio

nL

ea

dC

oll

ab

ora

tin

g

Pa

rtn

er

Co

mm

un

ity

Co

ntr

ibu

tio

n

Tim

e

Fra

me

Esti

ma

ted

Co

st

Dis

tric

tC

lan

Cit

y/

To

wn

Vil

lag

e

Ed

uca

tio

n15. U

pgra

de

Barc

layv

ille

C

entr

al H

igh

Sch

ool to

co

lleg

e le

vel.

Barc

layv

ille

/P

icn

ices

sW

akp

eken

-S

etor

Barc

layv

ille

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2012

Ed

uca

tio

n16. C

on

stru

ct a

M

ult

ilate

ral H

igh

Sch

ool

in P

icn

ices

s.

Barc

layv

ille

/P

icn

ices

sG

bala

kpor

Pic

nic

ess

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n17. C

on

stru

ct a

Pri

mary

E

lem

enta

ry a

nd

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

Sob

ob

o,

Jark

ark

po, F

ilork

en a

nd

F

len

eken

.

Barc

layv

ille

/P

icn

ices

sK

poh

Sob

ob

oJr

krkp

oF

ilork

enF

len

eken

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n18. R

econ

stru

ct D

io

Pu

blic

Ele

men

tary

S

chool, S

ob

o P

ub

lic

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool an

d

Ner

oh

Pu

blic

Ele

men

tary

S

chool.

Low

er J

loh

Wap

pi

Dio

Sob

oN

eroh

MO

E,

GoL

Don

ors

Con

cess

ion

air

esC

on

tract

ors

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n19. C

on

stru

ct a

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

Kayk

po,

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

Ja

rkark

po, E

lem

enta

ry

Sch

ool in

Kla

ydee

per

, E

lem

enta

ry S

chool in

Poe

an

d E

lem

enta

ry S

chool in

S

eklo

ken

.

Bolloh

Fle

nw

leh

Pu

tiah

Kayk

po

Jark

ark

po

Kla

ydee

per

Poe

Sek

loke

n

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2012

Ed

uca

tio

n20. C

on

stru

ct a

Sen

ior

Hig

h S

chool in

Parl

uke

n,

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

S

art

eken

an

d E

lem

enta

ry

Sch

ool in

Ch

ebake

n.

Forp

oh

Kan

wea

Parl

uke

nS

art

eken

Ch

ebake

n

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2011

Ch

all

en

ge

Acti

on

Re

qu

ire

dL

oca

tio

nL

ea

dC

oll

ab

ora

tin

g

Pa

rtn

er

Co

mm

un

ity

Co

ntr

ibu

tio

n

Tim

e

Fra

me

Esti

ma

ted

Co

st

Dis

tric

tC

lan

Cit

y/

To

wn

Vil

lag

e

Ed

uca

tio

n21. R

econ

stru

ct a

Sen

ior

Hig

h S

chool in

B

arf

orw

in. R

econ

stru

ct a

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

N

yan

kun

po. R

econ

stru

ct

an

d E

lem

enta

ry S

chool in

N

ew T

ow

n.

Dorb

oh

Barm

eneh

Barf

orw

inN

yan

kun

po

New

Tow

n

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2011

Ed

uca

tio

n22. C

on

stru

ct a

Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

Dw

ehke

n

an

d a

n E

lem

enta

ry

Sch

ool in

Jarb

lake

n.

Dw

ehke

nJa

rbla

ken

Dw

ehke

nJa

rbla

ken

MO

E,

GoL

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2010

Ed

uca

tio

n23. C

on

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

G

ban

ken

an

d J

un

ior

Hig

h S

chool in

W

rop

luke

n.

Wro

gb

aG

balleh

Gb

an

ken

Wro

plu

ken

MO

E,

GoL

Feb

. 2008-

Feb

. 2010

Ed

uca

tio

n24. R

econ

stru

ct a

n

Ele

men

tary

Sch

ool in

W

eaye

n. Ju

nio

r H

igh

S

chool in

Jla

teke

n, Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

Does

wen

, Ju

nio

r H

igh

Sch

ool in

W

arw

leke

n a

nd

E

lem

enta

ry S

chool in

S

ebod

o.

Fen

itoe

Ch

enb

etee

Kan

torb

oW

eaye

nJl

ate

ken

Does

wen

Warw

leke

nS

ebod

o

MO

E,

GoL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Lab

or

Feb

2008-

Feb

. 2011

Ed

uca

tio

n25. R

ehab

ilit

ate

Nif

fu

Ele

men

tary

Ju

nio

r H

igh

S

chool an

d r

econ

stru

ct

Bet

u E

lem

enta

ry S

chool

an

d B

otr

a E

lem

enta

ry

Sch

ool.

Up

per

Jlo

hN

ifor

Gb

atu

Nif

fuB

etu

MO

E,

GoL

Don

ors

, C

on

cess

ion

air

es,

Con

tract

ors

Lab

or

Marc

h

2008-M

arc

h

2012

Ch

all

en

ge

Acti

on

Re

qu

ire

dL

oca

tio

nL

ea

dC

oll

ab

ora

tin

g

Pa

rtn

er

Co

mm

un

ity

Co

ntr

ibu

tio

n

Tim

e

Fra

me

Esti

ma

ted

Co

st

Dis

tric

tC

lan

Cit

y/

To

wn

Vil

lag

e

Ed

uca

tio

n26. R

econ

sru

ct t

he

Ele

men

tary

an

d J

un

ior

Hig

h S

chool in

Wes

sah

. A

lso r

econ

stru

ct t

he

Ele

men

tary

/Ju

nio

r H

igh

S

chool in

Nro

wki

a.

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Ap

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Ap

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stru

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in Z

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Ap

ril 2008 -

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pri

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stru

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pri

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stru

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clin

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in N

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mb

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stru

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mb

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Feb

. 2008-F

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stru

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clin

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ken

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. 2008-F

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stru

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clin

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on

stru

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clin

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clin

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2009

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stru

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on

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Marc

h 2

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arc

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on

stru

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clin

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in K

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olo

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Ap

ril 2008 -

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tow

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pri

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on

stru

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clin

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arc

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in

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on

stru

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clin

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in G

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Feb

. 2008-F

eb

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He

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on

stru

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clin

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in N

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aw

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iah

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iah

Feb

. 2008-F

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He

alt

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on

stru

ct a

clin

ic

in G

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ake

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np

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ken

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nA

pri

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A

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h26. C

on

stru

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clin

ic

in J

late

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Ap

ril 2008 -

A

pri

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alt

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on

stru

ct a

clin

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in N

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pri

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A

pri

l 2009

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pi

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ril 2008-

Ap

ril 2010

He

alt

h30. C

on

stru

ct a

clin

ic

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po.

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nw

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Ap

ril 2008-

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ril 2010

He

alt

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on

stru

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clin

ic

in P

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tiah

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Ap

ril 2008-

Ap

ril 2010

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alt

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on

stru

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h

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r in

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pri

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cl

inic

in

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pri

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pri

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stru

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clin

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pri

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stru

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clin

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po

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ark

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Ap

ril 2008 -

A

pri

l 2009

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on

stru

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clin

ic

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ken

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ken

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Ap

ril 2008 -

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pri

l 2009

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stru

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clin

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Ap

ril 2008 -

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pri

l 2009

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on

stru

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clin

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torb

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Ap

ril 2008 -

A

pri

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He

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on

stru

ct a

clin

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nd

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A

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l 2009

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